Site Reliability Engineer

Sectigo
Manchester, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate
Compensation
£ 52K

Job location

Remote
Manchester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Proxmox
API
Bash
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Computer Security
Information Systems
Computer Programming
Databases
Continuous Integration
File Systems
Distributed Computing Environment
Monitoring of Systems
Python
Nagios
Network administration
Reliability Engineering
Ansible
Prometheus
Systems Architecture
Oracle Linux
Virtualization Technology
Data Logging
Grafana
GIT
Containerization
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Information Technology
Deployment Automation
Build Tools
Puppet
Terraform
Software Version Control
Docker
Jenkins
VMware

Job description

We are looking for a talented Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing global team at Sectigo.

The Site Reliability Engineer designs and implements solutions to reduce toil and ensure reliability of our critical services at Sectigo.

This is a full-time and remote position based in the U.K. The ideal candidate should be located within 1-hour travel distance to the greater Manchester area. The target compensation package for this role is between GBP 52,000 and 63,500, subject upon internal equity and years of experience. We may make further adjustments through an approval process if the targeted compensation range needs to be modified based on business needs and market trends.

Here are the core functions, responsibilities, and expectations for this role:

  • Ensure the reliability of our critical products and services by meeting or exceeding SRE objectives.
  • Instantiate and maintain production infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tools.
  • Build and maintain proper monitoring of our services by utilizing centralized logging and time series databases.
  • Automate deployments, administration, and monitoring of our services by following CI/CD practices.
  • Work with engineering and information security teams to enhance, document, establish processes and generally improve the operability and security of our services.
  • Participation in team on-call rotation is required.
  • Additional tasks associated with this position may be assigned in response to company initiatives and business needs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, technology, or a related field is strongly preferred. In lieu of degree, 2+ years of relevant and/or equivalent experience is acceptable., * Minimum of 3+ years of software and/or operational experience in building and maintaining internet-facing production environments is required.
  • Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.
  • Knowledge of source control tools (Git preferred).
  • Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform preferred).
  • Good understanding of container technology (Docker, Kubernetes preferred).
  • Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or similar.) and alerting systems.
  • Experience with non-cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience running a large-scale 24/7 production environment.
  • Experience with distributed data processing, databases, and large-scale file systems is a plus.

Ideal Candidate Profiles, Talents, and Desired Qualifications:

  • Strong scripting abilities in Bash and Python.
  • Experience with incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
  • Experience in handling postmortems, building incident response plans, and improving incident resolution procedures.
  • Experience running and maintaining real-world build systems (Jenkins, DroneCI, or similar tools)
  • Demonstrable experience with the entire life cycle of software, starting with Systems Architecture, Systems Design, Implementation, Maintenance, and Operation.
  • Programming experience using HTTP Service APIs.
  • Virtualization experience (VMWare, Proxmox, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager).
  • Network administration experience is a plus.
  • Exposure to Security and Testing frameworks is a plus.
  • Exposure to compliant regulated industries such as Finance, Healthcare, or Government is a plus.
  • Experience with distributed data processing, databases, and large-scale file systems is a plus.

About the company

At Sectigo, we align around our mission and pride ourselves in helping thousands of customers sleep better at night. Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering comprehensive solutions that secure human and machine identities for the world's largest brands. Sectigo's automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across all certificate authorities (CAs) to simplify and improve security protocols within the enterprise. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers and two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust. "When people think Online trust management, they think Sectigo because we offer our customers unparalleled peace of mind." How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - Support, Excellence, Communication, Teamwork, Integrity, Growth and Openness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you'd like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we'd like to talk to you.

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