Urgently Need Associate Site Reliability Engineer (Remote) in Saint Paul, MN
Posted 2025-04-06Job title: Associate Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
Company: Patterson Companies
Job description: Patterson isn't just a place to work, it's a partner that cares about your success.
One of the distinguishing marks of our company is the talented people who embrace the people-first, always advancing, and results-driven culture. Professional growth abounds in this motivating environment. We value the diverse talents and experiences our employees bring to Patterson and believe that they build a stronger and successful organization.
The Associate Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) works with teams to support cloud-based software applications, supporting services, and hosting platforms often of limited scope and complexity. This role will be a member of a team that focuses on DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE for the Dental Software Organization. The Associate SRE works with senior team members and focuses on availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. This position is also responsible for assisting with environment and release management and focuses on continuously improving the quality, scalability and speed to market of the supported software.
Essential Functions
Educate yourself and others on anything that helps service teams more quickly and easily build, test, deploy & run their services to be more reliable.
Plan, design, deploy, and operate Site Reliability Engineering capabilities for cloud products & services.
Recognize and address sub-standard performance based on key performance indicators (KPIs)
Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than outages.
Continuously build, automate, and improve upon capabilities that are secure, scalable, performant, and resilient
Work closely with Infrastructure, Network, Security, Architecture, and Development teams to build highly performing, scalable, and secure Azure environments.
Define needs by documenting processes; includes research, planning and writing supporting documentation.
Additional Functions
In addition to the essential functions listed above, the incumbent may perform the following additional functions.
·Participate in regulatory and compliance activities as necessary.
Required Qualifications
·Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Sciences or area of functional responsibility preferred, or equivalent years of industry work experience
Knowledge of aspects of application development and project life cycles design and development experience with engineering software design tools
Understanding of software development approaches and best practices
Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of database and operating systems
Familiarity with designing and implementing a continuous integration pipeline (CICD)
Familiar with the concepts of Site Reliability engineering
Familiarity with version control systems e.g., Git, SVN, CVS
Ability to conduct research into software-related issues and products
Preferred Qualifications
- A passion for automation with a desire to eliminate toil wherever possible
- Familiar with application performance monitoring tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics)
Working Conditions
- Office environment  either in Patterson facility or at home/remote location
- Travel to corporate sites is periodically required (Quarterly or so)
We provide competitive benefits, unique incentive programs and rewards for our eligible employees:
Full Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits and an integrated Wellness Program.
401(k) Match Retirement Savings Plan.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
Paid Time Off (PTO).
Holiday Pay & Floating Holidays.
Volunteer Time Off (VTO).
Educational Assistance Program (Tuition Reimbursement).
Full Paid Parental and Adoption Leave.
LifeWorks (Employee Assistance Program).
Patterson Perks Program.
EEO Statement
EOE, including disability/vets.
We are Patterson. We welcome you.
Expected salary:
Location: Saint Paul, MN
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