Site Reliability Engineer

Randstad UK
Nottingham, UK
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) ARM Architecture Bash Shell Data Infrastructure Linux DevOps Distributed Systems Elasticsearch Python (Programming Language) Reliability Engineering Ansible Prometheus
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Ruby Scala (Programming Language) Bare Metal Apache Kafka Terraform Data Pipelines Elk Stack Golang

Job description

We are looking for a Lead SRE to design, scale, and operate massive-scale observability systems that keep our global services online and performant. You will join an autonomous team of software engineers focused on solving complex data infrastructure challenges., * Scale Prometheus metrics infrastructure to handle 100+ million active series.

  • Operate large Elasticsearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.
  • Grow high-throughput Kafka data pipelines processing hundreds of thousands of events per second.
  • Build custom alerting workflows and self-service APIs for internal engineering teams.
  • Provision cloud and private infrastructure using Terraform.

Requirements

  • 5+ years operating mid-to-large distributed systems on Linux VMs or bare-metal machines.
  • 2+ years developing in Go, Python, Ruby, Scala, or Bash.
  • Hands-on experience with Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Kafka, the ELK stack, Ansible, or Consul.
  • Comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases and participating in an on-call rotation.

Keywords: Observability, Monitoring, SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, ElasticSearch, ELK, Prometheus, Kafka, Terraform, Linux, Bare Metal

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