The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will enhance system reliability, lead automation projects, and optimize cloud solutions in a collaborative environment.
Our Team:
Technology drives our business. Our team is made up of talented software engineers, infrastructure engineers, leaders and UX professionals. We care about technology as a craft and a differentiator. We bring our global products to market with a mix of software, cloud, data centers, infrastructure, design and grit.
The Role:
Senior Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in automation and programming across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise to develop and scale cloud-based solutions. You'll tackle complex challenges, collaborating closely with development and IT operations teams to enhance system visibility, improve communication, and deliver measurable business value. By optimizing feedback loops and building observable systems, you'll drive customer satisfaction and support revenue growth.
This role is based in our Toronto office, and we follow a hybrid policy in order to foster continuous collaboration.
Job Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Compensation range for this position: $90,489 - $132,711
Bonus Target: 12.5%
If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
Technology drives our business. Our team is made up of talented software engineers, infrastructure engineers, leaders and UX professionals. We care about technology as a craft and a differentiator. We bring our global products to market with a mix of software, cloud, data centers, infrastructure, design and grit.
The Role:
Senior Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in automation and programming across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise to develop and scale cloud-based solutions. You'll tackle complex challenges, collaborating closely with development and IT operations teams to enhance system visibility, improve communication, and deliver measurable business value. By optimizing feedback loops and building observable systems, you'll drive customer satisfaction and support revenue growth.
This role is based in our Toronto office, and we follow a hybrid policy in order to foster continuous collaboration.
Job Responsibilities:
- Responsible for creating and implementing system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system.
- Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.
- Work with a highly skilled team of engineers to scale improvements to the cloud and scale them.
- Own deployment, availability, reliability, and performance of the systems.
- Proactively identify and reduce issues by designing, testing, and implementing software-based solutions.
- Be a strong contributor to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support.
Requirements:
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, with 3 to 5 years of software DevOps experience.
- Strong scripting or programming skills for automating repetitive tasks
- DevOps (CI/CD, Docker and Terraform) Experience
- Experience architecting and automating cloud-native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
- Hands-on Experience with Infrastructure as Code, using CloudFormation, Terraform, or other tools.
- Experience architecting cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Code Deploy (AWS)
- Hands-on Experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, and/or serverless technology.
- Good Debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with the software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.
- Experience with DB deployment and writing SQL/PLSQL queries
Compensation range for this position: $90,489 - $132,711
Bonus Target: 12.5%
If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
Top Skills
Ci/Cd
Cloud-Based Solutions
CloudFormation
Containers
DevOps
Distributed Applications
Docker
Infrastructure As Code
Microservices
Plsql
Serverless Technology
SQL
Terraform
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