Release Engineer II : Engineering Operations & Delivery Coordination

Description & Requirements

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At Jack Henry, we’re more than a technology company, we’re a force for good in financial services. We’re redefining how community banks and credit unions connect with the people they serve. Our mission is rooted in people inspired innovation, empowering financial institutions to deliver seamless, secure, and human centered experiences. We deliver cutting-edge solutions that are paving the way for the next generation of digital banking and payments, but our true impact begins with our associates. If you're ready to help transform an industry and grow with a company that values purpose, collaboration, and excellence then we’d love to meet you. Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) organization is expanding, and we are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help drive a major architectural modernization. In this role, you will move beyond traditional infrastructure maintenance to build a proactive, engineering-led ecosystem across our large-scale multi-cloud and co-location footprint. Working closely with cross-functional IT teams and business units, you will help design and implement standards for our hybrid cloud datacenter model. A primary focus of this position will be the architectural redesign, optimization, and migration of legacy on-premises workloads into Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring everything we build adheres to rigorous SRE principles. Mission & Impact: Everything as Code: Drive repository-led management across our public and private cloud environments to establish consistency and eliminate manual configuration drift. Engineering over Toil: Heavily leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate repetitive tasks, build smooth "paved roads" for product teams, and develop self-healing systems. SLO-Driven Architecture: Help shift our operational focus from traditional component monitoring to user-facing symptoms, defining meaningful SLOs and error budgets. Modernization & Migration: Lead the technical execution of re-architecting and redeploying on-premises services into GCP, ensuring scalability, performance, and long-term reliability. This position may be worked remotely within the United States, with the exception of California. You will be required to be onsite as needed to participate in meetings. The salary range for this position is $56,800- $90,000. This posted salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay we reasonably expect to offer for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary above or below this range and is subject to change in the future. Individual pay is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, work schedule, travel requirements, sales or revenue targets, and overall business needs and affordability. What you'll be responsible for: Performs routine configuration tasks following established procedures. Works with others to understand basic requirements. Tracks project progress and reports on status. Develops basic scripts for automation. Contributes to the configuration management database. Monitors basic release metrics. May perform other duties as assigned. What you'll need to have: Must have 2 years of experience in Powershell and or Python scripting and project coordination/ management. Experience in managing projects utilizing any of the following types of tools (Jira, Github, Kanban). Experience in being able to identify and create process automation. Experience establishing and creating reports. Effective cross functional collaboration and communication skills. Must be able to travel up to 15% to attend internal business meetings, trainings, and/or professional conferences. What would be nice for you to have: Exposure to technology operations. If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this opportunity. Even if you don't feel you meet