Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes Required) - Hybrid
At a glance
Senior Site Reliability role at FactSet. Norwalk · full-time · $190,000–$220,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Keep production services available and reliable, investigate incidents, and lead post-incident reviews to reduce repeat failures
- Set and monitor SLOs and SLIs, then work with developers to build reliability into services
- Automate operational work, improve system performance, and contribute to capacity planning
- Support critical systems through an on-call rotation and maintain team documentation and runbooks
What you bring
- At least eight years maintaining system reliability, scalability, and performance
- Hands-on Kubernetes deployment, operations, troubleshooting, and cluster administration experience
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes workloads, networking, storage, security, and Helm
- A computer science degree or a relevant degree
Who this fits
This senior role suits an experienced SRE comfortable with Kubernetes and incident response. You’ll join an on-call rotation supporting critical systems. The stated salary range for Connecticut and New York is $190,000 to $220,000 per year.
From the employer
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
At FactSet, our values are the foundation of everything we do. They express how we act and operate, serve as a compass in our decision-making, and play a big role in how we treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe that the best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and that curiosity is the key to anticipating our clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations.
About the Role
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services. You will work closely with development and operations teams to build and maintain robust infrastructure, automate processes, and drive engineering best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability and availability of production systems
- Respond to and resolve incidents, conducting thorough post-mortems to prevent recurrence
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
- Collaborate with development teams to build reliability into services from the ground up
- Design and implement automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical systems
- Contribute to capacity planning and performance optimization efforts
- Document systems, processes, and runbooks to support the wider team
Minimum Experience:
- 8+ years’ experience ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services
Required Technical Skills
Kubernetes (Required)
- Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting workloads in Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of core Kubernetes concepts including Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Ingress
- Experience with Kubernetes cluster management and administration
- Familiarity with Helm for application packaging and deployment
- Understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage, and security best practices
Additional Technical Skills
- Cloud Platforms: (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- CI/CD Tooling: (e.g. GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Harness)
- Monitoring & Observability: (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix, OpenTelemetry)
- Infrastructure as Code: (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)
- Config Management: (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Programming/Scripting: (e.g. Python, Go, Bash)
Soft Skills & General Requirements
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a methodical approach to troubleshooting
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
- A proactive mindset with a focus on automation and continuous improvement
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, particularly during incident response
- Commitment to a blameless culture and continuous learning
Nice to Have
- Experience contributing to open-source projects
- Familiarity with SRE principles as defined by the Google SRE handbook
- Previous experience in a DevOps or Platform Engineering role
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant degree.
The budgeted salary range for this position in the states of Connecticut and New York is $190,000.00 - 220,000.00
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. FactSet participates in E-Verify
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