Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering Enablement team. This is a critical role within a large, complex, and high-impact initiative focused on deconstructing our monolithic architecture, revitalising our technology stack, and embedding quality and resilience into every stage of our development lifecycle.
You will play a pivotal role in shaping our future-state platform, driving operational excellence, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
What You'll Do:
As a Senior SRE Engineer in our Engineering Enablement team, you will:
- Architect and Implement Reliability: Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, resilient, and performant systems on Azure, focusing on our Java, Kafka, and Couchbase stack.
- Drive Modernisation: Work hands-on as part of the team spearheading the adoption of Micronaut, standardising application templates, and transitioning to managed cloud services.
- Enhance Operational Excellence: Develop and implement strategies for improving system observability (standardised logging, metrics, tracing), alerting, and on-call practices.
- Automate Everything: Champion automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from CI/CD pipelines to infrastructure provisioning, focusing on accelerating delivery and de-risking deployments.
- Incident Management & Learning: Contribute to our mature, blameless post- incident review process, identifying root causes and implementing preventative measures to reduce incident hours.
- Tooling & Standards: Develop, maintain, and drive the adoption of shared, standardised SRE tooling and best practices across engineering teams, including containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes on Azure), infrastructure as code (e.g.,Terraform), and configuration management.
- Mentorship & Collaboration: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of SRE principles and operational excellence across the wider engineering organisation.
- Strategic Input: Contribute to the overall technical strategy and roadmap for our SRE and platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
What You'll Bring:
- Deep SRE Expertise: Proven experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer or a similar role, with a strong understanding of SRE principles (error budgets, SLOs/SLIs, toil reduction).
- Azure Cloud Proficiency: Extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating highly available and scalable applications on Microsoft Azure.
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Expertise: Mandatory extensive hands-on experience with AKS for container orchestration, including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Java Ecosystem Mastery: Expert-level proficiency with Java, including experience with modern frameworks (ideally Micronaut, Spring Boot, or similar) and JVM performance tuning.
- Distributed Systems Knowledge: Solid understanding and practical experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and associated challenges (e.g., consistency, fault tolerance).
- Messaging & Database Expertise: Hands-on experience with an event streaming platform (ideally Kafka) and NoSQL data storage (ideally Couchbase), including operational best practices.
- Automation First Mindset: Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) and experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, ARM templates) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
- Observability Tools: Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk).
- Problem-Solving Acumen: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a methodical approach to diagnosing and resolving complex production issues.
- Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Continuous Improvement: A proactive and innovative mindset, always seeking ways to improve systems, processes, and team efficiency.
Some of the benefits you’ll enjoy working with us:
- The chance to join an organization with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm on how software products are built.
- The opportunity to form part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech expert
- A highly competitive compensation package.
• Medical insurance.
• English lessons.
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