Senior Site Reliability Engineer

aPriori
Belfast
1 year ago
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Location: Belfast, NI, UK (Hybrid, in office 1 -3 days per week) Job Summary: Join us as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), where you'll play a pivotal role in working with our customers and developers by providing expert guidance on cloud infrastructure best practices and streamlining build and deployment processes at scale. Your primary focus will be on designing, developing, and administering our cloud environments to ensure reliability and user-friendly experiences as we transition to platform engineering. As a senior member of our SRE team, you'll cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and elevate developer experiences through the adoption of cutting-edge tools. Bring your technical prowess to mentor fellow team members, shape patterns, and establish best practices for managing infrastructure and deploying applications as code across diverse architectures. Responsibilities: Collaborate closely with support and software development teams to enhance velocity and ensure the quality of customer applications and services in our cloud environments. Solve complex problems through creativity and collaboration identifying best solutions for our platform. Define, promote, and uphold SRE best practices across our product portfolio. Work alongside Architects and product development teams to build reliable services. Lead automation initiatives, focusing on deployment, management, and observability of our services. Provide guidance and expertise on infrastructure usage to developers and other internal stakeholders. Contribute to engineering planning sessions, ensuring adherence to cloud architecture best practices. Define patterns and best practices for using IaC tools such as Terraform and Packer. Participate in on-call rotation and incident management procedures. Required Skills/Abilities: Strong scripting skills, preferably in Python and shell scripting. Ability to analyze emerging technologies and trends to guide technical decision-making for the team. Proven ability to learn, mentor, and work well in a team environment. Inquisitive and driven mindset, with a passion for solving complex problems. Education and Experience: Bachelors degree in computer science or a related discipline or 5-7 years of relevant professional experience. Proficiency in AWS (preferred) or GCP with 3 years of experience using Terraform. Experience in container orchestration, with 2+ years of proficiency in Kubernetes using Helm, and familiarity with Docker, ECS, and EKS. 2+ years of experience delivering software to the cloud with a full understanding of SDLC using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins. Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Linkerd or Istio is a plus. Experience of continuous deployment workflows with containers such as Flux or ArgoCD is a plus. Relevant certifications in cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, and container orchestration is a plus. Familiarity with modern authentication and authorization solutions is a plus. Exposure to tooling and principles in platform engineering and GitOps is a plus. aPriori Offers: Hybrid working (1-3 days per week in our brand new Belfast office) Generous Pension Private medical, dental and vision Cycle to work scheme Flexible time off Enhanced holidays, plus 4 aPriori days per year when all of our team are given a day off Engagement and social activities, including summer and Christmas events Income protection Employee Assistance program Competitive compensation Interested in joining our team as a Data Engineer Lead? We continue to build an organization highly talented, self-motivated individuals. Our unique environment empowers employees to bring their best selves each day, asking, How can I do better? and then exceeding expectations. We work together towards a common goal. We nurture and celebrate each others successes. aPriori is an equal opportunities employer. We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone. All candidates will be required to demonstrate right to work in UK UK candidates- GDPR Notice: Skills: Scripting skills python Degree in Computer Science leadership skills

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