Senior Site Reliability Engineer

at  Evri

At Evri we understand that searching for your first job, your next job, or that big promotion is a huge milestone. Here at Evri we always think about what it’s like to be in your position when making those big decisions. It takes courage to make change happen in your life, and we’re here to help you with that.
We’re here for the first step, the next step, and the big step.
You’re not just a number to us. You’ve got to know you’ll love working here. It’s as important to us as you ‘being the right fit’. We want to help you feel what it’s like to work at Evri, to see the value you can bring to any of our roles, and how we can help you grow. We’re never one-size-fits-all. Our careers are as unique as you are.
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to be responsible for providing the tooling, processes and support that their team requires to Reliably deploy applications to production and detect issues and rollback changes quickly.
Evri is leading the way in creating responsible delivery experiences for everyone, everywhere, and that’s how we approach our talent development. We’re a kind, ambitious and diverse team, always supporting and encouraging each other. Our people are extremely important to our business, without them we wouldn’t be where we are today, striving to do the best for our customers and clients. If you like what you hear, then we’d love you to apply!

YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Improving the efficiency of the software development processes by providing tooling and guidance that improves infrastructure resilience, security, and cost optimisation
• Supporting your team in dealing with operational issues such as availability, performance, and scalability
• Influencing Service Level Objectives, Non-Functional Requirements, and infrastructure requirements
• Highlighting deviations from technology standards to the TDA (Technical Design Authority)
• Ensuring that the Service Level Objectives in your area are met
• Helping to develop and promote the SRE service catalogue
• Ensuring the best security practices are followed
• Supporting and developing junior members of the team
• Capturing the SLIs and mapping them to the appropriate SLOs
• Creating monitoring and dashboards to visualise the SLIs

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING…

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with Windows and/or Linux administration
• Experience with AWS is essential
• Experience with application containerisation platforms and registry e.g. Docker & ECR
• A background in at least one of the following scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go, Rust)
• Knowledge and/ or experience with Java
• Some experience with configuration management tools and infrastructure as code (we use a mixture of Ansible and CloudFormation)
• Some practical experience with CI/CD tools (we use Jenkins and Concourse CI)
• A background in software development is considered a plus