5 days ago
Base Salary
$184k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the organization’s Site Reliability Engineering strategy, vision, and technical roadmap.
- Establish service design reviews, capacity planning methodologies, production readiness standards, and organization-wide reliability practices.
- Architect large-scale solutions and influence technical decisions across multiple teams and business units.
- Build and operate shared platforms, tooling, and frameworks for high availability, incident detection, and incident response.
- Drive performance, availability, efficiency, automation, observability, self-healing, and remediation improvements.
- Partner with engineering, product, executive, and business stakeholders to align reliability investments with business priorities.
- Lead, mentor, and develop SRE talent across multiple teams and grow organizational SRE capability.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, systems engineering, and/or cloud-based environments.
- 10+ years of experience with public cloud platforms, including designing and operating large-scale systems.
- 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and maintaining applications and/or systems infrastructure in large-scale, customer-facing production environments.
- Experience architecting and influencing large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure solutions.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams.
- Understanding of observability practices including metrics, log aggregation, time-series databases, and distributed tracing.
- Programming experience in one or more higher-level languages such as Python, Java, C#, or C++.
- Strong knowledge of Linux systems, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and production scripting.
- Experience with GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD practices.
- Preferred qualifications include technical vision and strategy, distributed systems architecture, cloud-native applications, Kubernetes or containers, Terraform, Ansible, production optimization, security or network design, and observability tools such as Splunk or Grafana.
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, executive influence, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
- The posting describes real flexibility and benefits employees can count on.
- The position offers a base pay range of $184,300 to $264,950, with potential performance-based bonus and restricted stock unit awards.
- UKG provides benefits and rewards information through its careers benefits page.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureC#C++GitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKubernetesLinuxPythonSplunkTerraform
Categories
Site Reliability
About UKG
UKG builds cloud software for human capital and workforce management—HR, payroll, timekeeping, and scheduling—sold as SaaS to mid‑size and large employers. Formed in 2020 by the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos, it is privately held by Hellman & Friedman and has dual headquarters in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Weston, Florida. Its platform helps organizations handle pay, compliance, and workforce planning across industries.