Site Reliability Engineer

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Site Reliability Engineer

Apply remote type Hybrid or Remote locations BELFAST ARNOTT HOUSE time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R0274696

Location: BELFAST ARNOTT HOUSE, United Kingdom

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

About the role

Imperva’s Infrastructure and Cloud team is 2 years old and is staffed with senior leadership from Netflix, Cloudflare, Amazon, Fastly and other major corporations. Our mission is to rebuild Imperva's pops and core infrastructure with new modern technologies, embracing Infrastructure as code at all levels with automation as a core requirement for any and all projects.

We are looking for an experienced SRE to work with a newly formed Site Reliability Group. Your responsibility will be to help drive innovation, scale our platforms, and create operational excellence for the Imperva globally distributed network. The person taking this role will have significant input in decisions that will have a significant impact on Imperva’s infrastructure and how we serve our customers.

As an SRE in the ICO organization, you will work with your team solving problems, supporting and optimizing the infrastructure programmatically. You will work with your team to improve the overall availability, reliability, performance, and security of the infrastructure under control.

Responsibilities

  1. Apply SRE core tenets of measurement (SLI/SLO/SLA), eliminate toil, and reliability modelling
  2. Establish metrics for data-driven decisions to help increase availability, reliability, and velocity
  3. Build and maintain, and evolve SLO and SLI network/system/application baselines
  4. Assist with go/no go preplanning, verification/validation, and review of existing and new product/services
  5. Proactively analyse data and test the integrity of network/systems to ensure production applications and services are operating optimally
  6. Work with internal customers as needed to troubleshoot and resolve business affecting issues
  7. Escalations, incident response, RCA, and blameless post-mortem
  8. Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation

Qualifications

  1. At least 3 years of professional experience within a cloud/web/CDN scale infrastructure
  2. Experience with Python and Go. C/C++ a plus
  3. Expert knowledge of Linux systems, network programming and protocols TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP
  4. Experience with BGP and Anycast routing is a plus
  5. Experience with DevOps principles and concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Saltstack), CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Git), monitoring and visualization (Prometheus, Grafana)
  6. Experience with big data technologies such as NoSQL/RDBMS, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka
  7. Experience with containers and container management (Docker, Kubernetes)
  8. Experience analysing and building data telemetry, modelling, pipelines, UI visualization
  9. Experience in developing software, troubleshooting, and monitoring large scale distributed systems
  10. Implement software engineering best practices/standards and software development life cycle
  11. Working knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodologies
  12. Outstanding collaboration and communication, and documentation skills with a proven ability to work cross-functionally
  13. BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience

While we are flexible about our working locations it is important that we meet face to face from time to time to properly build relationships and get to know each other. Therefore you may be required to travel internationally up to 5 times a year for department conferences, team meetings or group working sessions. You may also be required to attend your local Imperva office from time to time to work with colleagues from your own or different departments.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

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