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Production Reliability Engineer

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Friedman Vartolo LLP · Garden City, NY

Full-Time Mid_senior Pythoncadence
Posted
1d ago
Category
Manufacturing
Experience
Mid_senior
Country
United States
The Company

Friedman Vartolo LLP is a fast-growing, New York-based law firm specializing in real estate and default services, with over 300 employees providing top-tier legal services to our clients in seven states. While our legal expertise sets us apart, it's our mindset that drives us forward. We bring a fresh, fast-paced energy that drives our momentum and shapes how we approach every challenge.

We are a company that chooses to dig deeper, solving problems at the root instead of settling for surface fixes. Here, there are no passengers because every individual adds value, owns outcomes, and moves the firm forward. With an underdog mentality, we embrace constant elevation, always sharpening, always climbing, and never coasting. When challenges come, we row together and lean in as one team to get the job done, no matter what.

The Position

We are seeking a Production Reliability Engineer to own the operational health of our deployed internal application portfolio. The portfolio is growing rapidly - many new applications shipping every week - and we need a dedicated owner ensuring that what we deploy stays reliable, secure, and performant over its lifetime, and that the operational footprint stays manageable as the portfolio grows.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer who thinks systematically about reliability, communicates clearly during incidents, and knows when to retire a deployed application that has outlived its usefulness. You will be the source of truth for "is our portfolio healthy" and the decision-maker on what gets maintained, what gets fixed, and what gets retired.

You will work closely with the Senior Technology Manager, a DevOps Engineer (counterpart role), and a group of Production Engineers who own initial deployment and 30-day iteration of each application.

Key Responsibilities

Own the operational health of the firm's deployed internal application portfolio
Lead incident response for production issues; serve as on-call rotation lead
Manage security patching, dependency updates, base image refreshes, and certificate rotation across the deployed portfolio
Conduct monthly triage of every deployed application - usage levels, error rates, security posture, retire/keep recommendation
Maintain the application retirement queue and drive retire/deprecate decisions for low-usage or obsolete applications
Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for application uptime, performance, and reliability
Partner with the DevOps Engineer to ensure deployment pipelines incorporate reliability requirements from day one
Produce a weekly portfolio health report - uptime trends, open incidents, security posture, retire/deprecate decisions
Conduct incident postmortems and drive remediation actions to completion
Contribute to security and compliance posture work (SOC2 readiness, Vanta evidence collection) as it relates to operational reliability

Required Skills & Qualifications

5+ years professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, production engineering, or equivalent
Strong incident-response experience - leading incidents, not just participating; comfortable owning the on-call rotation
Experience defining and tracking SLOs and error budgets for production systems
Strong Azure cloud experience (or directly comparable AWS / GCP experience)
Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Datadog, New Relic, or equivalent)
Comfortable reading code in multiple languages (TypeScript, Python, C# preferred) for incident triage and root-cause analysis
Understanding of cloud security fundamentals - patching cadence, dependency management, secret rotation, base image hygiene
Excellent written communication for incident comms, postmortems, and portfolio reporting

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

Experience managing a portfolio of small-to-medium applications, rather than a single monolith
Experience with security tooling (Huntress, Microsoft Defender, Vanta, similar)
Familiarity with Databricks, data warehouses, or analytics platforms
Experience driving retire/deprecate decisions and the conversations that accompany them
Experience in regulated industries (legal, financial services, healthcare)
Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001) from an operational-evidence perspective

Benefits

Friedman Vartolo LLP is proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support the well-being and security of our team. Our benefits include:

Paid parental leave options
Short and long-term disability leave options
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Dependent Care plans
Commuter benefits including transit, and parking options
Pet insurance to help care for your furry family members
401(k) retirement plans with employer contributions
Gym and fitness reimbursements to support a healthy lifestyle
Annual business expense reimbursements for attorneys
Annual $500 travel budget to attend firm sponsored social events
Hybrid work flexibility available after 90 days of employment *
Dependent upon specific position requirements and firm business needs

Equal Opportunity Employer

Friedman Vartolo LLP is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

ADA Compliance

Friedman Vartolo LLP is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, participate in a job interview, or take part in any stage of the hiring process, please contact our Recruitment Team at recruitment@friedmanvartolo.com.

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