Site Reliability Engineer
United Kingdom
Full Time
2 weeks ago
$85,000 - $90,000 GBP
No Sponsorship
Key skills
AWSCloudKubernetesPHPPythonSQLTerraformBashDatadogJiraConfluenceCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Integrating tightly with our Product Engineering teams
- Following SRE practices and maintaining high standards of compliance
- Implementing a new standard of observability utilising SLI/SLO/Error Budgets
- Continually evolving our observability platforms for greater coverage
- Using a code-first approach to build and changes to reduce TOIL
- Advocating a strong focus on availability, reliability and uptime
- Liaising and embedding with the Engineering teams for the constant evolution of metrics
- Working towards planned roadmap goals
- Actively taking part in the daily stand-ups and keeping sprints on track
- Keeping up-to-date documentation in the JIRA & Confluence tools
- Taking part in SRE Incident Management processes
- Acting as a key Incident Commander within the Incident Management process
- Taking part in SRE On Call
- Ensuring a focus on cost efficiency for the platforms & services
- Working with team members to foster collaboration and ongoing communication with stakeholders
Requirements
- Proven experience in DevOps or SRE, with a keen interest in growing as a Site Reliability Engineer
- Experience with AWS or other cloud providers
- Enterprise experience in HA environments
- Automation skills through Terraform, Python, Bash or similar
- Wide-reaching SRE skills and a deep understanding of SRE practices
- A strong understanding of SQL, PHP, Kubernetes, CI/CD
- Observability product experience (e.g., Datadog)
- Managing services using SLI/SLO & Error Budgets
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Ability to work under pressure and be highly reliable
- Adaptability and flexibility to change in a fast-moving environment
- An ability to learn new tools and processes quickly and impart that knowledge
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Kubernetes
- PHP
- Python
- SQL
- Terraform
Benefits
- Screening interview with the Talent Partner and Head of SRE
- Final interview with the Head of SRE and the Director of Infrastructure.
- A flexible holiday plan of up to 40 days per year
- £400 a year Wellbeing Allowance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Allowance for professional development books, E-books, and podcasts
- Contributory pension scheme
- Employee, friends and family discounts across 1200+ retail, hospitality and lifestyle brands