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Our Source-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash platform serves 3,000+ customers - including NVIDIA, Whirlpool, Sony, and Trek - supporting 1.2M users and generating $200M+ in annual revenue. Founded in 1985, we've grown to 1,200+ employees worldwide with a culture focused on improving working capital, human relationships, and environmental sustainability. Esker operates in five continents with global headquarters in Lyon, France, and two U.S. locations in Madison, WI, and Denver, CO.\nThe Role\nWe’re seeking aSite Reliability Engineer to join our US-based SRE team of 10 engineers, part of a global SRE organization of 35+ professionals responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our multi-tenant SaaS platform. In this role, you’ll work hands-on with large-scale production systems, collaborating with experienced engineers while helping drive automation, observability, and reliability improvements across the platform.\nThis is an exciting opportunity for someone moving from systems administration or DevOps into SRE, or for an early-career SRE looking to deepen their expertise across a broad and modern technology stack-all while supporting a platform used by millions of users worldwide.\nWhat You'll Do\nImprove platform reliability and availability by participating in our on-call rotation, learning from real production incidents, and helping evolve our incident response and post-incident practices\n\nIncrease delivery speed and consistency through infrastructure and deployment automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Azure DevOps\n\nReduce time to detect and resolve issues by building actionable monitoring, alerting, and dashboards that improve visibility into system health and performance\n\nEnable scalable growth by designing and operating infrastructure that supports a rapidly expanding global customer base across Azure and on-premises environments\n\nEmpower engineering and support teams by delivering self-service tools, automation, and guardrails that allow safe and efficient production operations\n\nStrengthen a culture of reliability and continuous improvement through agile collaboration, knowledge sharing, blameless postmortems, and cross-team initiatives\n\nOur Technology\nYou'll work in a hybrid cloud environment with infrastructure spanning Azure and on-premises data centers. Our stack includes Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Redis, and modern observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry). Automation is central to how we work: Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure, Azure DevOps for CI/CD.\nWhat We're Looking For\n3+ years in a Site Reliability, DevOps or a related role supporting production systems\n\n2+ years of hands-on experience operating and maintaining Linux systems in live production environments (Windows server experience is a plus)\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred (equivalent experience considered)\n\nPractical experience withInfrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar\n\nA solid foundation in networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, and proxying\n\nExperience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases in production environments\n\nScripting proficiency in one or more languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell\n\nSchedule & On-Call\nThis is a hybrid role requiring at least two days onsite in Middleton, WI per week. The team primarily works standard business hours (Monday-Friday), with flexibility to support collaboration and focused work.\nThe role includes participation in a rotating, well-balanced on-call schedule designed to be sustainable and predictable. On-call responsibilities are compensated, including additional pay and per-incident compensation, and are supported by strong documentation, escalation paths, and a collaborative team approach. On-call coverage consists of:\nOne evening approximately every two weeks (5-9pm CT)\n\nOne weekend approximately every 6-8 weeks (Friday 5pm - Sunday 7pm CT)\n\nWhy Join Us\nGain experience across a diverse, modern tech stack with mentorship from a global team\n\nClear career development path with promotion opportunities and access to roles across Esker\n\nWork on systems at meaningful scale supporting major enterprise customers\n\nCollaborative agile environment with emphasis on knowledge sharing and psychological safety\n\nSalary Range: $95,000-119,000 + on call pay\nThisposting will closeon Wednesday, September 30th at 12CT.\nEmployee Benefits\nStudent loan repayment assistance\n\nFlexible work schedule, summer hours, and work from home options\n\nProfit sharing options\n\nPaid time off for community outreach and volunteer opportunities\n\nYearly stipend for employee wellness, hobbies, or educational activities\n\nDog-friendly work environment\n\nCompetitive salary and benefits package\n\nCome as You Are\nEsker is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to maintaining an inclusive and mutually respectful work environment. 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