Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Overview<br><br><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>Impact the Moment</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Could your creative thinking build the future? A Lead Site Reliability Engineer at McGraw Hill makes a difference for learners and educators across the world. Our team needs individuals with new ideas who connect with people in innovative ways.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>How can you make an Impact?</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">McGraw Hill, a leading provider of digital educational resources and content, is seeking a <strong>Lead Site Reliability Engineer</strong> to lead a team of 6 Engineers for our Digital Platform Group in supporting our K–12 learning platforms. These platforms serve millions of students and educators nationwide, and you’ll play a key role in ensuring their reliability, scalability, and performance. Working closely with engineering and product teams, you’ll leverage your expertise in AWS, Terraform, and observability tools to drive automation, enhance resiliency, and maintain the health of our cloud-based infrastructure.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within Canada.</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>What you will be doing:</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Lead a 6 member SRE team supporting production infrastructure and services</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Manage backlog, sprint planning, and team velocity</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Own reliability, uptime, security, cost, and performance of services</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Define and monitor SLOs for application workloads</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Plan on-call rotations and work to reduce alert fatigue</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Forecast seasonal growth and capacity planning</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Mentor engineers and foster professional growth</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Report status and issues to leadership monthly</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Partner with development teams</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Collaborate with CyberSecurity on risk mitigation</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Collaborate with FinOps on cost reduction</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Design and troubleshoot highly-distributed, cloud-based production systems</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Maintain infrastructure-as-code and monitoring-as-code practices</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Improve system resiliency through failure injection and chaos testing</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Participate in on-call rotation and resolve operational issues</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Optimize existing systems for performance and cost</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Ensure telemetry provides visibility to application performance</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Support agile development practices and code reviews</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>We’re looking for someone with:</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering roles supporting enterprise applications.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Strong problem-solving, triage, and root cause analysis skills with a systems engineering mindset</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Deep expertise in the AWS ecosystem, with hands-on experience across core services including primarily ECS, RDS, EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, and networking configurations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Expertise with Terraform for managing and automating scalable cloud infrastructure</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Skilled in CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) and managing end-to-end software delivery lifecycles.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Strong familiarity with telemetry and observability tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog), including querying logs and metrics for performance monitoring.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>Why work for us?</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfillment that will inspire you to even greater heights.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">The pay range for this position is between $141,000 – 167,000 CAD annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.  Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” or "@careers.mheducation.com” email addresses and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> CAN-TECH_25

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