Site Reliability Engineer

at  William Hill

We’re building our Site Reliability capability to support evoke’s vast tech landscape. As a Site Reliability Engineer working within our Trading Team, you’ll work with an autonomous team to run operations and help improve development pipelines and infrastructure.
The highly skilled SRE team are managing the shared infrastructure within the department for multiple delivery teams (i.e. Kubernetes, Kafka), and through a DevOps culture enabling those delivery teams with observability and pipelines for their business applications. Their job is to guarantee system reliability, performance, and supportability with a strong engineering emphasis on building autonomous solutions that deliver value to end-users early, often, & fast.
They are central to the reputation and trustworthiness of the product and act as an advocate for engineering best practices.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We are committed to responsible gambling, and we are looking for people who can support our ethos. To apply to this post, you will:

• Have experience gained in Cloud engineering – preferably AWS
• Have good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration and pipelines
• Have good understanding of incident response model

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Ensure Reliability - Best in class Observability and Security, applying the Four Golden Signals, with appropriate Chaos Testing and Disaster Recovery Plans
• Improve Productivity - Automate rapid delivery through software delivery pipelines using Infrastructure as Code
• Maintain Infrastructure - Curate the Container Orchestration, Monitoring, Messaging and Data Storage Platforms, developing any necessary integration
• Manage Incidents - Lead Incident Management in Production all the way through impact assessment, service restoration and post-mortems, including being part of the SRE on call rotation
• Share Knowledge - Enable development teams within the DevOps Culture, promoting best practice, documenting runbooks, presenting talks, working with production engineering teams

Our roles offer more than just a job, you’ll become part of the William Hill family! We have created an environment where our people can thrive. Check out some of the fantastic benefits on offer: –

• Financial: Competitive salary, Flexible benefits and bonus schemes.
• Hybrid working: Our employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some face-to-face collaborative team time - and the chance for a coffee and a catch-up!
• Holiday entitlement: You’ll be entitled to 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday.
• Perks and discounts: Discounts at a range of high-street retailers.
• Family Support: Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
• Health & wellbeing: Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education. You will also have access to gym discounts and our cycle to work scheme.
• Travel Card: Enjoy access to our Metro Card loan for convenient and money saving commuting.
• Healthcare: We prioritise your health and well-being, offering comprehensive healthcare benefits (or a cash alternative).
• Pension package and life assurance: Safeguarding your financial future and offering peace of mind