Site Reliability Engineer (Contract outside of IR35)
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Job description
Our cross-domain services are used within government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE, you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks., * Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems
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Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts
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Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business
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Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals
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Research and evaluate technologies, tools and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions
Requirements
Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Experience using modern configuration management tools, with Ansible being a must-have, and Chef or similar tools considered a plus.
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Experience working with Terraform
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Experience working with Docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm)
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Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar)
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Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana.
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Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution)
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Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
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Linux command line, administration and shell scripting
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Working knowledge of network security protocols
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Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
Desirable Skills:
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Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar)
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Knowledge of cross-domain principles & technologies
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Experience of working in a service management environment
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Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems
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Creating and monitoring system availability metrics and using those to drive work that reduces downtime
Further Information:
To meet the security requirements of certain clients and industries we serve, any job offer will be contingent upon the successful completion of a security screening process.
