Site Reliability Engineer

A leading organisation is on the look out for a Site Reliability Engineer to provide expertise in maintaining operational coverage of services and functions offered through the organisations cloud compute and storage environments including research infrastructure. This role is a full time, permanent position

They will consider related roles such as Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer and similar roles also for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with managed service providers, vendors and other external entities to ensure that outcomes will deliver services based on principles of continuous service improvement
• Take a hands-on approach supporting application environments and research infrastructure, ensuring timely and effective response to users' needs
• Reduce cloud sprawl by focusing on adopting and implementing cloud native automation
• Support analysis of metric-based monthly reports on capacity, cost and performance
• Establish a new framework for incident management within the organisation.
• Play a role in the production release process, ensuring the definition of done has been met.
• Contribute to system architecture and design sessions to ensure that all system improvements adhere to SRE best practices.

Key Skills:

• Experience with public cloud technology Azure and related platform toolsets is a must
• Experience with New Relic/Graylog/Nagios.
• IAC
• Docker/Kubernetes experience
• Powershell experience
• Experience in 24/7 monitoring of distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge in Windows or Linux OS, cloud storage, cloud networking
• Highly developed communication skills
• Great progression for anyone with a strong System Administration background who wants to take their skills to the next level
• Good knowledge of CI/CD deployment strategies.