Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer
Nottingham (Flexible)
75k
Role Summary
Xpertise are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who will be a key member of our clients Operations team. You will be passionate about our products and platforms running at peak performance. You will understand how our software runs on top of the infrastructure (both physical and Cloud) and how the individual components interact to provide the brilliant messaging solutions our customers expect. to join our Technology Department. As a Site Reliability Engineer you will play a key role in:
Ensuring high levels of system performance through monitoring, analysis and performance tuning
Implementing scalability and fault tolerance
Improving processes through automation or other efficiencies
Troubleshooting Application and Middleware issues
Working with Engineering teams to ensure successful running of their software in a high throughput production environment
Building deployment pipelines that ensure high quality code deployments
What essentials are we looking for?
Experience of working with Microsoft Azure
Strong working knowledge of Terraform, App Services and Kubernetes
Fluent in written and spoken English
Passion around reliability
Creating and modifying Terraform deployments
Previous experience of working in an Operations role (ideally a Site Reliability role)
Ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams, to take ownership of, prioritise and be accountable for your work
Excellent communication skills
Monitoring solutions (Datadog, Azure Application Insights or Log Analytics)
Scripting/programming languages to assist in automating solutions e.g. PowerShell (preferred), Bash, C#, Ruby, Python
Experience supporting web-based applications
It’s desirable for you to have:
Azure DevOps pipelines
Experience of working with Microsoft Server Operating Systems
Experience of defining service level objectives/operational requirements for a Cloud-based solution
Understanding and working knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud offerings, especially in the Platform as a Service category (Web Apps, Storage, Functions)
A good understanding or working knowledge of the following tools: Terraform, Ansible, VSTS, ARM, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, ELK, Grafana
A good understanding or working knowledge of DNS, Load Balancer configuration, Active Directory and Cloud-based network infrastructure
Experience of working in an agile environment and experience with agile methodologies such as TDD, Scrum, Kanban
Understanding and experience of implementing a monitoring and alerting system for a micro-service architecture
Applied understanding of cloud security best practice
Benefits
Competitive Salary (£70,000 to £75,000 depending on experience )
Company Bonus Scheme based on performance
Private Healthcare & Dental
27 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
Birthday off work
5% Pension
Death in service (4x salary)
£350 Christmas voucher
Monthly/quarterly socials
Training & Development opportunities
Hybrid working
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