Our London-based client is hiring an SRE having 3+ years of experience in a similar role.
You will be required to report to an office based in London.
Sponsorship is not provided for this role.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
- Work to implement security, reliability, monitoring and performance improvements across local, test, and production infrastructure
- Work alongside the Head of Platform and Senior Platform Engineers to take platform engineering projects from inception to completion, providing feedback to the team and business as required.
- Work closely with our development teams, guiding focus on platform technologies for projects.
- Work closely with the wider business to provide support for infrastructure services.
- Manage deployments to all environments.
- Respond to, diagnose and resolve unexpected platform issues.
- Participate in the on-call rota and provide support during major incidents / emergencies.
- Communicate incidents in a timely and clear way internally and externally as required.
- Assist in IT support across the business as required.
Minimum Requirements:
- A strong understanding of how the web works, and its core concepts.
- 2+ years of Linux system administration (ideally RedHat / CentOS / Fedora).
- Good understanding of Bash scripting.
- Experience using Nginx to manage web servers.
- Experience writing (My)SQL to query complex databases, and an understanding of MySQL replication principles.
- Thorough knowledge of source control with Git and GitHub.
- Configuration management or IaC experience (ideally Ansible or Terraform).
- Understanding of both caching and event queueing concepts
- Basic knowledge of networking protocols and concepts, including DNS.
Bonus Requirements:
Whilst not required, these skills are a bonus:
- Development skills in any of JavaScript/PHP/Python/Ruby.
- Previous exposure to the unique issues created at scale.
- VMWare or virtualisation experience.
- Docker or containerisation experience.
- Previous usage of AWS.
- Previous usage of Cloudflare.
- Experience with any of Grafana, Prometheus, Memcached, NAXSI, Redis, Sphinx, Zabbix.