Our client's Cloud Operations team is expanding its SRE function. Site Reliability Engineers keep all user-facing services and production systems running smoothly. SREs here are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople who apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline and mature automation to the environment and the codebase. The team specialises in systems — networking, the Linux kernel, and scaling, algorithms and distributed systems.
As an SRE you will
- Be on an on-call rotation responding to production availability incidents, and support service engineers with customer incidents
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Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from ever happening
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Run infrastructure with Ansible, Puppet, Terraform and Kubernetes
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Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms, not outages
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Document every action, so findings turn into repeatable actions — and then into automation
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Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible
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Design, build and maintain core infrastructure that scales to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users
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Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
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Plan the growth of the infrastructure
You may be a fit if you
- Think cloud-first, regardless of the flavour of public cloud
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Think security-first
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Think about systems — edge cases, failure modes, behaviours, specific implementations
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Know your way around Linux and Windows
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Know the use of config-management systems like Ansible or Puppet
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Have strong programming skills — Python, Java, Golang, Node.js
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Collaborate and communicate asynchronously, and document so nothing is learned twice
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Have a go-for-it attitude: when you see something broken, you fix it
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Have experience with Nginx, HAProxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform or similar technologies
Projects you could work on
- Coding infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform
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Improving Prometheus monitoring or building new metrics
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Helping release managers deploy and fix new versions of application software
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Planning and executing the migration from AWS virtual machines to cloud-native, container-based deployments on Kubernetes (EKS)
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Developing a relationship with a product group and defining their SRE KPIs — the SRE practice here is early in its journey
