Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Our client are looking for an experienced engineer to join their team, please find details below:

Significant Demands:

• Enhancing and automation of the Monitoring and Alerting of our platform
• Responding to incidents and restoring service, but also identifying issues before they happen.
• Gaining a strong understanding of the systems to efficiently triage issues and find owners for problem resolution
• An ability to identify an issue or a manual process and ensure that they never occur again
• Incident management; able to co-ordinate others and be co-ordinated during service disruptions with a focus on restoring availability
• Ability to write complex queries using various tools, an ability to lead others to excel in this field
• Reviewing systems designs and implementations to identify resiliency, scalability and monitoring issues prior to implementation

Working Practices and Relationships:

• Strong relationships with other members of the SRE team,
• Working relationships with colleagues in other departments, third parties who support backing applications.
• Collaborative relationships with developers, security and architects to influence them to build resilient, maintainable solutions
• Proficiency in one programming or scripting language and willingness to apply software development best practices

Candidate Profile

• Direct experience of supporting complex, highly scaled systems in production
• Linux knowledge, experience troubleshooting and predicting issues in advance
• Networking, troubleshooting and monitoring
• Cloud Native application designs for high performance, scalability and resilience
• Incident Management and co-ordination, Blameless PIRs
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, Splunk, Dynatrace, Thousand Eyes, ServiceNow, Jira, Jenkins, Python, Prometheus
• Java, Cassandra, Redis, RunDeck, MongoDB, Apigee, Okta, PostGres, AWS, Azure, GCP
• Infrastructure as Code, Git Ops
• Line management, coaching or mentoring