Site Reliability Engineer Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer
Location: London
Salary: Up to £700 per day
Searching for a Senior SRE / Site Reliability Engineer to join a leading market research organisation reporting directly into the Head of SRE. I am looking for a consultant who has specific experience in developing SRE principals within a team and has knowledge of containers, scaling, distributed systems, networking, cloud native and many more. The ideal profile should have come from a software development background and understand DevOps ways of working.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with Product Owners to agree availability targets that our customers value the most.
Document every action so your findings turn into repeatable actions-and then into automation.
Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.
Debug production issues across services and all levels of the stack including real user experience issues.
Be on a standby rotation to respond to availability incidents and provide support for Product teams with customer incidents.
Learn from your time on-call to prevent incidents from ever happening.
Run our Infrastructure Platform with Terraform and Kubernetes.
Use the Infrastructure Platform to run your product as a first resort and make suggestions to improve the platform as much as possible.
Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible.
Plan the growth of your product's infrastructure.
Design, build and maintain paved road modules that allows products to scale.
Key Skills
Infrastructure as Code - IaC
Terraform
CI/CD
Python / JavaScript
Kubernetes - EKS
Cloud
AWS
Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Southampton
Salary: £650 - £690 per day
Scope
Migrate our CI/CD infrastructure to AWS
Enhance our existing AWS Product implementation with the latest best practices.
Requirements:
Amazon Web Services (specifically networking/VPC and IAM)
Terraform
Git, Gitlab
Experience in designing, building, and maintaining high performance, highly available, production hosting environments, preferably using AWS (VPCs, security groups, RDS, S3, EC2, EKS)
Understanding of security engineering and security best practices
Good knowledge of at least one high-level scripting language, such as bash
Advanced knowledge of best practices and tooling for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Containerisation: Docker & Kubernetes
Experience with monitoring and tooling such as Elastic, StatusCake, PagerDuty
Desirable:
Agile delivery
Thorough understanding of major system components used in completing assigned tasks (i.e Linux, Networking, Storage or Databases).
Java/Spring programming experience
Site Reliability Engineer
Location: London
Salary: £600 - £615 per day
A unicorn client of ours is seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join immediately on a contract basis.
Essential requirements:
Proven track record within the SRE/DevOps space
Advanced usage of Terraform to build AWS resources
NewRelic
Strong development skills across Python/Java
Kubernetes
Desirable requirements:
Any experience across the below would be highly desirable;
Circle CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
Open Telemetry frameworks