Site Reliability Engineer

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

The Site Reliability Engineering team works with all departments and business units to provide dependable cloud infrastructure solutions, along with support, and services which allow teams to innovate, experiment and deliver software while maintaining a high level of quality. We focus on providing a platform and knowledge to help teams develop resilient and scalable cloud systems and services, ensuring quick detection and recovery from failures, and cultivating a culture of continuous enhancement. 

Our team is built on collaboration, offering robust mentorship opportunities and the flexibility to explore every facet of our business through our cloud computing initiatives.

Why we’re looking for you:

You meet the following requirements, or believe you have transferable skills in all of these areas.

• You have experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or Azure

• You have built and deployed containerized applications and services

• You enjoy automating manual tasks

• You have worked in agile environments and are comfortable iterating quickly

• You enjoy collaborating and communicating with team members of varying skill sets and from different fields

Bonus points for:

• Experience with one of the many infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform (our favorite), Kubernetes, CloudFormation, Docker, Ansible, Salt, Packer, Puppet, Chef, or similar

• Familiarity with database design and tuning, especially with AWS Aurora MySQL and Postgresql

• Familiarity with data workflow orchestration tools such as Composer and Dataproc

• Proficiency with Bash and a programming language (Python, Ruby, Golang etc.)

• Previous experience in the healthcare sector and securing infrastructure to standards or compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, HITRUST, or ISO

Responsibilities for the Position:

• Works as a member of an SRE team

• Review application requirements and recommend solutions and common design patterns

• Use your experience, deep technical knowledge, and creativity to simplify development and infrastructure provisioning workflows

• Configure and deploy cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CI tools like Concourse

• Proactively and continuously learn about new and relevant technologies

• Use your knowledge to influence other developers and advocate for best practices

• Implement dashboards, monitoring, and alerting for team services

• Support your users either in person or via Slack 

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California, Colorado, New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.