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YouVersion is hiring a
Staff Site Reliability Engineer

📍 Edmond, OK

The YouVersion Staff Site Reliability Engineer is primarily responsible for ensuring the integrity, performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud-based infrastructure and related systems supporting the applications and platforms operated by Life.Church. This role will lead security-focused reliability efforts across our systems and platforms, ensuring our infrastructure is robust, scalable, and resilient against modern threats. The Staff SRE will also partner with cybersecurity, architecture, DevOps and software engineering teams to drive secure-by-default practices across our CI/CD pipelines, production environments, and internal tools. The Staff Site Reliability Engineer utilizes their skills to deliver technical outcomes that align with the direction of their team to further Life.Church’s mission and to reach people for Christ.

YouVersion was created by the local church in 2007 and remains a ministry of Life.Church today. At Life.Church, our mission is to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. Our team is committed to reaching people worldwide through innovative technology. And YouVersion is one of the ways we get to do that. Life.Church is a multi-site Christian church meeting in the United States and globally at Life.Church Online. 

We wholeheartedly believe a daily rhythm of seeking intimacy with God has the power to transform lives. That’s why YouVersion creates biblically-based experiences that encourage and challenge people to seek God. We hope everyone in our community is on an active journey to become who God made them to be, abiding in Him, and drawing closer every day.

What You'll Do
  • Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure.
  • Lead security initiatives related to infrastructurere liability, observability, and automation.
  • Partner closely with the Cybersecurity team to coordinate and support penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and remediation efforts across cloud infrastructure and application platforms.
  • Build and maintain incident response and postmortem processes with a focus on security root causes.
  • Automate monitoring and alerting for infrastructure and application-level security anomalies.
  • Partner with software engineers to implement secure coding practices and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) policies.
  • Mentor other engineers on secure systems design, DevSecOps best practices, and incident preparedness.

Skills Needed to Succeed
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in order to maintain relationships and partnerships.
  • Maintain a systematic and organized approach to completing assignments accurately, thoroughly, and timely.
  • Clearly explain complicated and detailed processes in a concise and simple way.
  • Ability to self-motivate, take initiative, make independent decisions, and problem-solve.
  • Ability to collaborate in a team environment and work independently.
  • Strong leadership skills and understanding on developing and guiding others.
  • Deep understanding of cloud security principles (IAM, VPC design, key management, service hardening).
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java).
  • Familiarity with container security, Kubernetes security hardening, and service mesh security.
  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • Certifications such as CISSP, ISM, OSCP, or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)preferred.
  • 7+ years of related work experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with a strong focus on security.
  • Experience implementing secure CI/CD pipelines and automated security testing tools.
  • Experience with system monitoring, incident response, and postmortem analysis.
  • Working knowledge of data privacy regulations impacting global users (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) preferred.
  • Experience with zero-trust networking, identity-aware proxies, or infrastructure policy-as-code preferred.
  • Experience with contributions to open source security or SRE tooling preferred.

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📍 Location: Edmond, OK
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