Senior Site Reliability Engineer

at  Holiday Extras

ABOUT

We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who can play a pivotal role in driving our strategy by enhancing the dependability, scalability, and accessibility of our mission-critical systems and services.
You’ll drive positive change in implementing advanced SRE best practices, orchestrating proactive monitoring of system performance, and leveraging your extensive knowledge to rapidly diagnose and remediate incidents with precision.

We know your time is precious, so we keep our recruitment process as quick and easy as possible. If we believe you might be a match for a job you’ve applied for, you’ll enter our hiring process as follows:

• Initial 30-45 min call understanding more about your previous experience and explaining the team & role
• On-site interview including technical scenario

THE ROLE

By joining our team you’ll:

• Focus on delivering ultra-scalable and highly reliable software systems running on cloud infrastructure
• Advance the implementation of IaC principles to enable consistent and automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration
• Take ownership of incident resolution processes, conducting in-depth root cause analysis, and implementing preventive measures to avoid future incidents.
• Identify system weaknesses and work to continuously improve performance through metrics analysis and capacity planning.
• Mentor junior engineers, share best practices, and ensure high standards of documentation for infrastructure and incidents.
• Define and build our Service Level Objectives for critical services, ensuring they align with the business and user expectations.
• Make data-driven decisions for scaling resources up or down to meet demand through auto-scaling policies
• Collaborate to ensure the security of both hardware and cloud assets, applying patches and security updates are maintained.
• Continuously working to optimise system performance by analysing metrics, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing performance enhancements.
• Support our group of businesses and the nuances of their purpose-built infrastructures
• Lead and assist in solving challenges and delivering innovative new experiences with other teams
• Form part of our business out-of-hours support rota (1 in 6)

HOW WE HIRE FOR THIS ROLE

We know your time is precious, so we keep our recruitment process as quick and easy as possible. If we believe you might be a match for a job you’ve applied for, you’ll enter our hiring process as follows:

• Initial 30-45 min call understanding more about your previous experience and explaining the team & role
• On-site interview including technical scenarios

Cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture is paramount for us. Recognising we are all different, if for whatever reason you need us to adapt the process, please get in touch via recruitment@holidayextras.com.