Company

Centene Corporation

Description

You could be the one who changes everything for our 26 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

“Applicants for this job have the flexibility to work remote.”

The Role

We are transforming technology and creating a digital evolution that will empower Centene to better serve our members. As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes) this role will require strong Kubernetes and Observability experience to join our growing team. Within Centene our team implements and owns end-to-end availability, reliability and performance of the shared Kubernetes platform environment. You will proactively work to build better visibility into our critical infrastructure systems, identify recurring problems and build tools and processes to prevent problems from recurring as well as implement new technologies to ensure a high level of platform service quality is delivered to our members.

Position Purpose

Uses advanced experience to lead more complex projects from end-to-end that are focused on managing and maintaining optimum platform infrastructure performance, reliability, and security using SRE practices, observability tools, manual and automated procedures, documentation, people and processes and continuous delivery(CI/CD) tools, processes, and designs. Leads the development and delivery of complex services to automate monitoring activities and provide critical information to facilitate response and resolution of performance and availability issues and incidents. Leads the delivery of standardized and scalable software tools to ensure that systems operate without interruption at optimum performance and leads project teams through out the deployment process. Troubleshoots and analyzes service disruptions to determine the root cause of issues and develop solutions for improved reliability.

Additionally you will bring

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Engineering or related field or equivalent experience. 6+ years of experience in the AWS, SRE, and Kubernetes field or in a related area. Experience with software engineering, enterprise operations support, object oriented programming, automation, consulting with internal customers, cloud based enterprise-grade cloud systems management and full stack engineering.

Technical Skills

Experience with Linux Operating System; Operating Systems; Unix Operating System; Windows Operating System required

Experience with Other Experience with observability/monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Elastic, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana required

Experience with Other enterprise level CICD Tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Cloudbees, OpenShift required

Experience with Other working in public cloud platforms like AWS and Azure required

Experience With Programming Tools Required

Experience with Other building and operating highly scaled applications required

Experience with MongoDB; MySQL; Oracle Database Management System (DBMS); PL SQL; SQL (Programming Language) required

Experience with Other varying code repositories, auto deployments, branching with tools such as Gitlab, Bitbucket, Subversion required

Experience with Other IT service management tools such as Service Now, Atlassian, BMC required

Soft Skills

Intermediate - Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty

Intermediate - Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

Intermediate - Ability to work independently

Intermediate - Demonstrated analytical skills

Intermediate - Demonstrated project management skills

Intermediate - Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure

Intermediate - Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Flexible work solutions including remote options, hybrid work schedules and dress flexibility, Competitive pay, Paid time off including holidays, Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) and stock purchase plans, Tuition reimbursement and best-in-class training and development.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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