Financial System Reliability Specialist

Are you a seasoned reliability expert with a passion for finance and technology? Do you thrive in environments where the stakes are high, and the challenges are complex?

Talent500 is seeking an exceptional Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our engineering organization, you will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and operational excellence of our Accounting and Finance platforms.

The Senior Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE) will be responsible for delivering highly reliable financial applications and data services that meet the demanding requirements of accuracy, compliance, and availability. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build automation, implement monitoring, improve incident response, and champion DevOps practices that enable Finance and Accounting systems to operate with consistency and trustworthiness.

This role requires a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to articulate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. If you have experience supporting financial systems, hands-on expertise with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and IaC tools, and a proven track record of managing incident response, we want to hear from you.

• Reliability & Availability: Ensure Accounting and Finance platforms meet defined SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for performance, reliability, and uptime.
• Automation & Efficiency: Build automation for deployments, monitoring, scaling, and self-healing capabilities to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging for accounting applications and data pipelines.
• Incident Response: Lead and participate in on-call rotations, perform root cause analysis, and drive improvements to prevent recurrence of production issues.
• Operational Excellence: Establish and enforce best practices for capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and compliance controls in financial systems.
• Collaboration with Engineering & Finance: Partner with software engineers, data engineers, and Finance/Accounting teams to ensure operational needs are met from development through production.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure financial applications and data pipelines meet audit, compliance, and security requirements.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive post-incident reviews, implement lessons learned, and proactively identify opportunities to improve system resilience.

• Bachelor's in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5-7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering, ideally supporting financial or mission-critical applications.
• Strong experience with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent).
• Hands-on expertise with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, and financial system integrations from an operational support perspective.
• Strong scripting/programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar) for automation and tooling.
• Proven ability to manage incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
• Experience ensuring compliance, security, and audit-readiness in enterprise applications.

• Strong experience with Snowflake and SQL (data modeling, storage, performance tuning).
• Hands-on SRE and DevOps expertise, including CI/CD and automation.
• Solid monitoring and observability skills (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
• Proven experience supporting financial systems (ERP, revenue recognition systems, accounting platforms).
• Strong communication skills to articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Exposure to FinOps practices for optimizing cloud spend.
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience building resilience into data pipelines and ensuring auditability.
• Broader knowledge of emerging frameworks and tools in cloud and finance tech.