Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

at  Orbis Investment Management Limited

COMPETITIVE SALARY + FURTHER TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES + COMPETITIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE

This company who are leaders in the Cybersecurity space are currently seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their ever-expanding international tech team as they continue to expand their global reach throughout Germany and Europe as a whole.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior SRE with the relevant skills to gain valuable experience and take a huge step forward in their career.
This company is renowned for their culture and how they look after their staff. Everyone is pulling together to combine exciting project work with individual work-life balance. Appreciation of work and personality, early delegation of responsibility, and confidence in one’s abilities characterise this company.

ABOUT THE SENIOR SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (SRE) VACANCY:

The Cloud and Infrastructure team at this company is a relatively new team which is looking to grow quickly.
Many of the senior leadership come with impressive backgrounds having worked for the likes of Amazon, Cloudflare, Netflix etc. As the company expand their core infrastructure and integrate modern technologies, implementing IaC across all levels is important with Automation being crucial to all projects.
As a result of this growth and modernisation, the company are looking for experienced Senior SRE’s to join their recently founded Site Reliability Group.

IDEAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SENIOR SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (SRE) VACANCY:

– Several years’ working experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
– Experience with DevOps principles and concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Saltstack), CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Git), monitoring and visualization (Prometheus,
Grafana)
– Experience with containers and container management (Docker, Kubernetes)
– Several years’ experience within a Cloud/Web/CDN Ccale infrastructure
– Python and Go. C/C++ would be nice
– Expertise in Linux systems, Network Programming and Protocols TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP
– Experience with BGP and Anycast routing is a plus
– Experience with big data technologies such as NoSQL/RDBMS, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka
– Experience analysing and building data telemetry, modelling, pipelines, UI visualization
– Experience in developing software, troubleshooting, and monitoring large scale distributed systems
– Implement software engineering best practices/standards and software development lifecycle
– Working knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodologies
– Outstanding collaboration and communication, and documentation skills with a proven ability to work cross-functionally
– BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience

YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

– Driving innovation
– Scaling platforms
– Creating operational excellence for the globally distributed network
– Decision making around the infrastructure

SOME OF THE CORE TASKS:

– Metric establishment for decisions based on Data – with a view to helping improve availability, reliability, and velocity
– Application of SRE core tenets of measurement (SLI/SLO/SLA), eliminating toil, and reliability modelling
– Building and maintenance and evolution of SLO and SLI Network/System/Application baselines
– You will provide go/no go preplanning, verification/validation, and review of existing and new product/services
– You will need to proactively analyse data and test the integrity of network/systems to ensure production applications and services are operating optimally
– Working with internal customers as needed to troubleshoot and resolve business affecting issues
– Escalations, incident response, RCA, and blameless postmortem
– Participate in 24×7 on-call rotation