Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Up to £70,000 plus bonus and on call allowance (Circa £5,000 per annum)
Milton Keynes (2 days on site a week)
VIQU have partnered with a well-established SaaS company who are going through a significant platform transformation. They are hiring for multiple Site Reliability Engineers/DevOps Engineers to build stability, respond to live incidents, and assist with system upkeep.
This is a genuine opportunity to own and operate how the cloud function works, and progress into a leadership position as the team grows.
Experience required for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar (DevOps, Platform Engineer ect.) within a customer facing environment.
- Strong hands-on experience with either Azure or AWS platforms.
- Experience with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep), Container orchestration (Kubernetes/Lambda/EKS/AKS), and monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Azure Monitor).
- Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control.
- Ability to implement new processes, and tools, ensuring the wider development and support teams adopts new ways of working.
- Previous use of automation and AI tools to enhance efficiency.
Job Duties of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- Utilise various technologies to manage their cloud platform, and automate application lifecycles.
- Regularly use Datadog and other observability tools for application performance monitoring.
- Implement new ways of working, helping to shape how the organisation responds and recovers to incidents.
- Actively drive down key reliability metrics (MTTR, incident frequency, on-call toil) by evaluating key incidents.
- Work on an a on call rota, ensuring you are available to respond to incidents during this time.
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