Site Reliability Engineer New

• Lead team technical discussions, especially around ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability
• Be involved in creating High Level Designs (HLDs) for new products and platforms
• Mentor junior SRE staff and enable them for success
• Lead incident response and post-mortem activities within your assigned service team
• Work with other Engineers in a cross-functional team to prioritise reliability improvements to address technical debt and toil
• Contribute to code to improve reliability
• Implement automation to reduce ongoing toil

• Minimum of 5+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Available to be scheduled in on-call rotation.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer, with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure.
• Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages:
• Python (preferred)
• Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust
• In addition, experience with at least 3 of the following topics:
• Distributed data storage at scale (Hadoop, Ceph)
• NoSQL at scale (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra)
• Data Aggregation technologies. (ElasticSearch, Kafka)
• Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability
• Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana), and Incident Management toolsets
• Kubernetes and/or AWS (deployment and management)
• Software Distribution (Package management and distribution at scale)
• Configuration Management (ansible, saltstack, puppet, chef)
• S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)

• Training Provided
• Regular team and company events
• Free drinks, fruit or food
• Flexible working
• Free Gym or Gym Subsidy
• Private Medical/Dental healthcare
• Bonus/Reward Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Game Jams

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