Meet Benevity

Benevity’s award-winning corporate purpose software empowers companies and their people to take social action on the issues and causes they care about. Through giving, volunteering, grant-making and positive actions, we help 940+ clients (and counting!) build better cultures and engage their employees and customers to create greater social and business impact. We’re also one of the first B-Corps in Canada, meaning we’re as committed to purpose as we are to profits.

Benevity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Analytics and Insights team. The data flowing through our data platform directly contributes to the decision-making of our internal leaders and analysts in addition to clients running Goodness programs for some of the most iconic brands in the world.

It’s more than building data warehouses and reports; technological shifts are unlocking and repositioning data to be one of the most valuable assets an organization possesses.  This role offers a rare opportunity to help contribute to a data ecosystem that truly makes the world a better place.

What you will do:

• Day-to-day administration of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data platforms with support for our legacy Amazon Web Service (AWS) environments
• Collaborate with our Data Engineers on remediating technical debts, implementing a new data platform on GCP, and helping to optimize existing AWS workflows and infrastructure in collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions across all systems
• Adhere with Site Reliability Engineering principles on incident management and service level objectives
• Assist in implementation of security best practices and initiatives at all levels of the systems infrastructure
• Serve as a steward for the service life cycle for the AWS in collaboration with SRE team and GCP data platforms
• Troubleshoot issues that arise, document defects in JIRA, work with colleagues to resolve production issues
• Assist with sourcing and testing infrastructure enhancements before deployment
• Support workflow automation using configuration management and continuous deployment frameworks
• Work in an on-call rotation
• Be a great teammate!

What you bring:

• You are a learn a lot, not a know it all
• Post-secondary diploma, certificate or degree in an IT-related discipline or the wherewithal to have obtained such things
• Comfort with an outrageous number of acronyms
• Experience with GCP architecture and related products including: Datastream, BigQuery, Looker, Cloud Storage, Billing, Cloud Function, etc.
• Experience with AWS architecture and related products including: EC2, RDS, ALB, VPC, VPC Peering, Multi-AR, EFS, EBS, Beanstalk, Auto Scale groups, direct connect, etc.
• You have a good understanding of what the Well Architected Framework is and how it relates to EC2, BigQuery, GCS/S3, RDS, VPCs, NATs, and more
• 2-3 years Linux/UNIX systems administration experience, preferably in a LAMPJ environment
• Familiarity with CentOS/RHEL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Reverse Proxies, Firewalls/NAT, HTTPS, SSL Certificates, SFTP, FTPS, DNS, SMTP
• Experience in configuration, implementation, and maintenance of SaaS platforms
• A fierce passion for availability, reliability, and short MTTR
• Well-formed experience with at least one scripting language (BASH, Python, etc.) We code on this team
• You know SQL and can help to debug MySQL and PostgreSQL Databases (slow queries, traces, killing queries)
• Experience with the practice of Infrastructure as Code and have done infrastructure coding (Ansible and Terraform)
• Familiarity with monitoring and metric collection systems 
• Familiarity with information security best practices and tools
• Familiarity with backup strategies and tools
• Version Control Systems (Git)
• A belief that companies should be socially responsible.

Change the World Through Technology

If you want to use your skills, voice and vision to create and improve products for the world’s coolest companies, Benevity is the place for you. You’ll be part of a tech transformation at a high-growth company that is changing the way businesses and people do good in the world.

You’ll get that competitive salary, flexible health benefits, mental health support, a generous bonus program, stock options, a hybrid office/home work environment and so much more. Plus, Benevity’s very own MyGoodness program inspires our people to donate, volunteer and take action for the causes and issues they care about.

If you want to play an integral role in a tech transformation, you belong at Benevity.

Join a company where DEIB isn’t a buzzword

The diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and passions of our people make it possible for us to keep innovating as the market leader in our space.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are part of Benevity’s DNA. You’ll see the impact of our massive investment in DEIB daily—from our Black Employee Network making space for us to have difficult conversations to our Pride events and the exceptional diversity on our leadership and tech teams.

We strive to build a strong culture of Belonging so that every Benevity-ite feels included and can thrive as their authentic selves — in a place where everyone has an equitable opportunity to shine!

Here at Benevity, we are committed to creating a culture of belonging and that starts with a fair and accessible hiring process. Any candidates with disabilities who may require accommodations throughout the hiring or assessment process, are encouraged to reach out to [email protected].

If you want to feel seen, heard and celebrated, you belong at Benevity.