Site Reliability Engineer
An exciting global technology organisation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join its growing engineering team. This is a fully remote position, offering the opportunity to work on large-scale, business-critical platforms used by customers around the world.
The role would suit an experienced Site Reliability, DevOps, Platform or Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on experience across Kubernetes and Microsoft Azure who enjoys solving complex production problems, improving reliability and automating manual processes.
You will work closely with Development and DevOps teams, helping to design, build, operate and scale highly available production environments while ensuring services remain reliable, secure and performant.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting and improving highly available, business-critical production services
- Monitoring production environments to ensure availability, scalability, performance and security
- Responding to production incidents, diagnosing complex technical issues and restoring services
- Carrying out root cause analysis and contributing to post-incident reviews
- Building automation to reduce manual and repetitive operational tasks
- Using Infrastructure as Code to improve the consistency and scalability of environments
- Working closely with Development and DevOps teams throughout the application release process
- Balancing the delivery of new functionality with platform reliability and service-level objectives
- Identifying bottlenecks and proposing improvements across infrastructure and applications
- Improving the reliability, quality and time-to-market of software solutions
- Supporting the continued development and scaling of a global product platform
- Participating in an out-of-hours on-call rota
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience
- Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience
- A solid background within Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering or a similar environment
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
- Strong production troubleshooting and incident response experience
- Experience supporting highly available production environments
- A strong understanding of reliability, scalability and automation
- Experience with scripting or programming, ideally PowerShell or Python or Go
- Knowledge of database technologies such as MySQL
- A security-first approach to designing and operating infrastructure