Site Reliability Engineer
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER - CONTRACT - £590pd - LEEDS - ASAP - AZURE - KUBERNETES - TERRAFORM
Start date: ASAP
End date: end of this year
Location: 2 teams (in the UK and US) - Leeds 2 days in the office
Hours per week: 40
Pay rate: £590/day
Interview process: 2 stages
As the Senior SRE in the group, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our organisation and the rollout of this platform, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and delivering high-quality solutions.
This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments and is passionate about leveraging technology and innovation to solve problems.
Our teams are collaborative and forward-thinking; the successful candidate will help shape the operations and support for this service, it's customers and projects, working alongside Development, QA, IT Operations and Customer Operations teams. You will be required to communicate and solve problems effectively, whilst handling a fast-paced working environment.The utilisation of modern DevOps practices, agile support and deployment processes will be essential. You will be a leading member of our team working with a diverse range of technologies. You will enjoy working in a friendly environment and benefit from our investment in staff. The role also requires On-Call rotation for off peak hours to maintain 24/7, 365 system availability
Main Responsibilities
Delivery of resilient application stacks via "Infrastructure as Code" and other DevOps practices
Monitoring and on-going support of critical, high revenue business applications
Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues
Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams
Write and maintain systems / application documentation for technical and non-technical
Setting up and provisioning of new cloud based environments
Essential Skills and Attributes
Professional experience of working within the public cloud - Primarily Azure and AWS beneficial
Use of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
Continuous Integration/Delivery Tools such as - Gitlab CI/CD, Github Actions, Jenkins
Coding and scripting experience such as - PowerShell, Bash, Python or equivalent
Configuration management tools such as - Ansible, Puppet, Chef or equivalents
Hands-on experience of Linux servers, including support and troubleshooting
Experience working with containerised workloads such as Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
Previous analytic and troubleshooting experience is required
Cloud architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals.
Experience migrating application from on-premises to public cloud.
Desirable Skills
System and application monitoring such as - Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
Familiarity with Log Management tools such as - Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk
Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL, MS SQL Server or similar
Use of Secret Management services such as - Hashicorp Vault
Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.
Hands-on experience performing application static/dynamic security and penetration assessment with tools such as - SonarQube, CheckMarx, AppScan, BurpSuite, OWASP ZAP Proxy, WebInspect, Fortify, Veracode, Nessus etc.
Familiarity with different types of security vulnerabilities and tools for countermeasure
Experience with any high-level programming language.
This is a Hybrid role with an office in Leeds, UK.
Unfortunately this client cannot accept remote applicants or offer sponsorship