Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities :

• Delivery of resilient application stacks via "Infrastructure as Code" and other DevOps practices.
• Monitoring and on-going support of critical, high revenue business applications.
• Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues.
• Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams.
• Write and maintain systems / application documentation for technical and non-technical audiences. Skills and Attributes :
• Configuration Management tools – e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef or equivalents.
• Professional experience of working within the public cloud – Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Hands-on experience of Linux and Windows server including support and troubleshooting.
• System and application monitoring – e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Cloudwatch, etc.
• Familiarity with common source control tools – e.g. Git, SVN
• Cloud Architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals.
• Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practices and impart knowledge. Desirable Skills :
• Use of orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation
• Experience migrating application from on-premises to public cloud.
• Familiarity with Blue-Green deployment methodologies.
• Continuous Integration / Delivery such as Gitlab or Jenkins.
• Experience working with containerized workloads such as Docker.
• Familiarity with Log Management tools e.g. – Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk
• Experience working with an enterprise RDBMS such as MySQL and / or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.
• Use of Secret Management services e.g. - Hashicorp Vault
• Familiarity with any high-level programming language.