Platform Infrastructure Cloud, SRE Engineer - Assistant Vice President

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New York, NY
Hybrid
120K-160K Annually
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role

iCapital is powering the world’s alternative investment marketplace. Our financial technology platform has transformed how advisors, wealth management firms, asset managers, and banks evaluate and recommend bespoke public and private market strategies for their high-net-worth clients. iCapital services approximately $176 billion in global client assets invested in 1,433 funds, as of December 2023. 

 

iCapital has been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 for seven consecutive years (2018-2023); a three-time selection by Forbes to its list of Best Startup Employers (2021-2023); and a three-time winner of MMI/Barron’s Solutions Provider award (See link below).  

 

About the Role 

The Site Reliability Engineering team at iCapital is fundamental to ensuring our platform delivers consistent, reliable service to our client base. As an Assistant Vice President, you'll work at the intersection of software engineering and operations, applying engineering principles to infrastructure challenges. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing systems that scale efficiently, architecting observability solutions that provide actionable insights, and building automation that enhances our platform's reliability. This role requires someone who thinks systematically about reliability, can translate business requirements into technical implementations, and thrives on making complex systems more robust. 

Responsibilities 

  • Design, implement, and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) that align with business goals and customer expectations
  • Develop observability strategies, focusing on meaningful metrics that drive actionable insights
  • Drive automation initiatives to eliminate toil and improve system reliability
  • Champion reliability best practices across development teams through consultation and tooling
    Lead incident response, conduct thorough postmortems, and drive systematic improvements
    Participate in on-call rotations with a focus on continuous service improvement 

Qualifications 

  • 5+ years of SRE experience or related experience with 3+ years in AWS
  • Strong experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and related ecosystem tools
  • Working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB 
  • Strong foundation in reliability engineering principles and distributed systems behavior
  • Experience defining and implementing SLOs/SLIs and using them to drive system improvements
  • Demonstrated ability to design and implement observability solutions that provide actionable insights while minimizing alert fatigue
  • Coding abilities in at least one IaC language (Terraform preferred, Ansible, Chef, etc.) and one programming language such as Python, Ruby or Java with a focus on maintainable, tested code
  • Understanding of modern observability practices and experience implementing and maintaining monitoring solutions (Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, NewRelic, CloudWatch, and ELK in the cloud)
  • Strong incident response skills with experience leading incident retrospectives and driving improvements
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities and experience debugging distributed systems
  • Track record of successfully automating operations and reducing toil
  • Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • A desire to share, teach, and learn as part of a team 

  

Benefits 

The base salary range for this role is $120,000 to $160,000. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO). 

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

For additional information on iCapital, please visit https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us  Twitter: @icapitalnetwork | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icapital-network-inc | Awards Disclaimer: https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us/recognition/ 

iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

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The Company
New York, NY
1,464 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Powering the World’s Alternative Investment Marketplace. Part innovator, part educator, and part navigator of the alternatives industry, iCapital offers intuitive, scalable digital solutions that have transformed how private market and hedge fund investments are bought and sold. With iCapital, financial advisors, wealth managers, and asset managers around the world now have access to everything they need to deliver the return and diversification potential of alternatives to high-net-worth investors.

Why Work With Us

iCapital is a technology-driven cutting edge firm with an entrepreneurial spirit. You'll have the opportunity to make important contributions as part of a dynamic team where you can maximize your potential, develop new skills, and help change an industry within an innovative and fast-paced setting.

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