DevOps SRE - Senior or Lead (Remote Eligible)

Job Overview

org Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is about more than power. We’re about the power of relationships.

Our employees have the opportunity to work together to ensure electricity is delivered reliably and affordably to the millions of people living in our service territory.

Job Description

We have been voted one of Arkansas’ Best Places to work by Arkansas Business and we are looking for a member of our team who is passionate about our mission to keep the lights on!

We have a core ideology here at SPP that we stand by: Do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way.

Please ensure you are eligible to work in the U. S. without sponsorship prior to applying. COMPENSATION INFORMATION The salary range(s) represents our good faith estimate for the role at this time.

While we strive to provide competitive and transparent compensation, there may be circumstances where an offer is above or outside of the listed range.

Lead DevOps SRE | Pay Range: $112,240. 00 -$145,810. 00 Senior DevOps SRE | Pay Range: $87,950. 00 - $112,190. 00 Join a mission-driven technology team powering the reliability of the electric grid for millions across the central United States.

At Southwest Power Pool, we keep the lights on-literally. As a DevOps SRE, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the performance, resilience, and long-term scalability of SPP’s production systems and user-facing services.

Key Responsibilities

• Our employees have the opportunity to work together to ensure electricity is delivered reliably and affordably to the millions of people living in our service territory.
• We believe in supporting our employees through a fantastic benefits package: Competitive and transparent pay with bonus opportunities Excellent insurance package including three great medical plans to choose from, employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance Relocation bonus (if applicable) Hybrid working environment for positions that are eligible Fantastic contributions to your retirement through a 401(k) savings plan with employer-match benefits and a pension (defined benefit plan) fully funded by SPP PLEASE NOTE: SPP is not able to sponsor employment visas or student-work authorizations (STEM OPT) for this position.
• Lead DevOps SRE | Pay Range: $112,240.00 -$145,810.00 Senior DevOps SRE | Pay Range: $87,950.00 - $112,190.00 Join a mission-driven technology team powering the reliability of the electric grid for millions across the central United States.
• What You'll Do: As the DevOps SRE, you will be the technical authority driving SPP’s reliability and operational strategy.
• In this role, you will: Design and lead implementation of large-scale, highly available infrastructure solutions across multiple platforms.
• Partner with leadership, architects, and technical teams to align reliability initiatives with long-term architectural strategy.
• Lead major enterprise projects involving new technologies, cross-team automation, and reliability enhancements.
• Make architectural decisions that influence scalability, resiliency, and infrastructure management standards.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• We are open to discussing salary expectations with qualified candidates considering factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, experience and geographic location will all be considered during the hiring process.
• Mentor and develop senior and junior SRE team members through coaching, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing.
• Maintaining deep knowledge of SPP's architecture and technology portfolio.
• To be successful as a DevOps SRE, we're looking for: Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, related field, or equivalent work experience Experience Requirements: Lead: 8+ years of experience building highly available systems and supporting SaaS cloud-based infrastructure Senior: 6 years of experience building highly available systems and supporting SaaS cloud-based infrastructure Experience with terraform, Docker, Kubernetes or other Infrastructure/Configuration-as-code tooling Expert knowledge of Unix/Linux systems, including basic command-line proficiency, system administration tasks, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience using at least one scripting language such as Python, bash, PowerShell or similar Experience deploying to cloud-based technology (AWS) Experience with continuous integration (CI/CD) and automated build tools.
• Ability to tackle problems both at large scale and the small scale Good understanding of application/infrastructure security Excellent communication skills; ability to communicate with distributed teams Preferred: Good knowledge of algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design Experience with integration tools: Bitbucket, GIT, Bamboo, Jenkins, Code Pipeline, DroneCI, Docker etc.
• Physical Demands: The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to make decisions, interpret data, and problem solve.

Benefits and Perks

• We believe in supporting our employees through a fantastic benefits package: Competitive and transparent pay with bonus opportunities Excellent insurance package including three great medical plans to choose from, employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance Relocation bonus (if applicable) Hybrid working environment for positions that are eligible Fantastic contributions to your retirement through a 401(k) savings plan with employer-match benefits and a pension (defined benefit plan) fully funded by SPP PLEASE NOTE: SPP is not able to sponsor employment visas or student-work authorizations (STEM OPT) for this position.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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