Description
Job Title: Senior Reliability Engineer - Linux - Inside IR35
Location: Sutton/Remote
Salary/Rate: £660 - Inside IR35
Job Type: Contract
One of our leading consultancies are looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join their Cirium tech group with enterprise and open source language development experience. This is a project running up until the end of the year with a likely extension falling into 2022.
Background: It will help if they have a Developer background - liaise and understand the developers - be familiar with the developers work and way they approach things, and speak - this is a huge part of this role - understanding how developer teams work - understand their problems - create new infrastructure for them
Job Responsibilities/Objectives:
- Proactive site support to keep everything operational
- Implementing a monitoring strategy and refining over time
- Building and maintaining operational tooling and consulting on best practice for software delivery
- Diagnosing challenging technical issues
- Working as part of a cross-functional team to best implement internal applications
- Diagnose complex system performance problems
- Work closely within cross-functional teams to refine system monitoring and reporting
- Identify and implement best practices by collaborating with other SREs and SRE teams
- Understand Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and its implementation methods.
- Identify and implement architectural best practices by collaborating with multiple teams and software engineers
- Diagnose complex system problems using dumps, traces, or other diagnostics aids.
- Manage and encourage new ideas from staff to foster improvements and innovation
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- In depth technical knowledge of Linux
- In depth knowledge of one or more database systems such as Postgres, SQL Server
- Advanced knowledge of configuration management tools, such as puppet, etc.
- Advanced knowledge of best practices and tooling for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
- Good understanding of at least one high-level programming language ie .NET, C#, Python
- Good knowledge of at least one high-level Scripting language, such as bash
- Experience in Git is essential
- Experience in designing, building, and maintaining high performance, highly available, production hosting environments, preferably using AWS (VPCs, security groups, RDS, S3, EC2, ECS) - the squad and the team will be coming to the team when the things go wrong - to cover
- Understanding of security engineering and security best practices
- Containerisation (Docker) on Linux
- Advanced knowledge of at least one IaC tool such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
- A love of monitoring and experience in several different monitoring technologies
- Familiarity with ELK (Elastic stack)
- Familiarity with Ubunto (used local development)
- Networking (get connectivity for services, set up new accounts) - AWS and understanding of network in general
- Agile delivery - mostly task based on the day to day, more Kanban style (developer teams have Scrum style delivery squads)
- Thorough understanding of major system components used in completing assigned tasks (ie Linux, Networking, Storage or Databases).
- Knowledge of Vault (being pushed in the organisation - we need to implement some work in this language) and other security tooling
- Ability to clearly explain (written, and orally) technical issues to a non-technical audience
- Ability to administer scalable, cloud-native applications
Contact Information
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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