Maintain reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud-hosted services and databases. Implement SRE best practices, define SLIs/SLOs, respond to incidents, build monitoring and automation, perform DBA tasks (backups, restores, tuning), support CI/CD and DB migrations, and document runbooks and procedures.
About Cority
Cority helps customers see and prevent risks across their operations in real time. Our EHS+ platform converges people, data, and AI agents to provide a clear view of information people can trust, automate workflows that make people more impactful, and deliver personalized insights and expertise to improve decision-making. While most solutions respond to risks one at a time, Cority helps prevent them across environmental management, employee health, safety, quality, and sustainability. For 40 years, Cority has been the market leader in EHS+, recognized by top analysts and trusted by more than 1,500 of the most complex organizations worldwide. Cority has received many awards for its strong employee culture and outstanding business performance. To learn more, visit www.cority.com.
Role Summary
As an Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, you will support the reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud-hosted services and database platforms. You will work with senior team members to implement SRE best practices, improve automation, enhance monitoring, and contribute to incident response processes. You will also apply foundational DBA skills to ensure availability, recoverability, and performance of key data services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support cloud operations across Production, Customer Sales and Professional Services environments, focusing on reliability and performance.
- Assist in defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs and participate in incident response activities.
- Contribute to creation and maintenance of monitoring dashboards and alerts.
- Support managed and self-hosted databases including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
- Perform routine DBA tasks including backups, restores, integrity checks, and performance troubleshooting.
- Contribute to automation for provisioning, patching, and deployments using IaC and scripting.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on schema enhancements and query analysis.
- Participate in CI/CD workflows and integrate database changes into pipelines.
- Maintain clear documentation including runbooks and operational procedures.
Required Qualifications:
- 4–6 years in SRE, Cloud Operations, DevOps, or related roles.
- Foundational experience with SQL Server or PostgreSQL in production environments.
- Basic understanding of cloud DB platforms such as Amazon RDS or Azure SQL Database.
- Experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools and alerting solutions.
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts and exposure to tools like Gitlab, Jenkins or Octopus Deploy.
- Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
- Exposure to Container Orchestration via ECS Fargate or Kubernetes, and containerized Windows and Linux workloads.
- Familiarity with Flyway, Liquibase, or other database migration tools.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Redis or other caching layers.
- Familiarity with Database Performance tooling, like Solarwinds DPA
Success Indicators:
- Improved reliability metrics and reduction in recurring incidents.
- Demonstrated growth in automation and reduced manual tasks.
- Strong collaboration and steady progression toward taking ownership of services.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
· An opportunity to work in a values-driven, performance oriented, dynamic and growth focused culture
· We support a remote working environment with a one-time home office allowance and subsidized monthly internet allowance
· Competitive health benefits, dental plans, and retirement savings plan (RRSP, 401K plan etc.)
· Annual fitness allowance
· Mental health support provided through access to Calm Premium meditation app and access to Talkspace
· Access to Udemy, internal training programs, annual training allowance and certifications (if applicable), and High Talent Programs
Cority is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Cority is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, age, disability or any other legally protected status. For applicants who would like to request for accommodation please send an email to [email protected].
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