Site Reliability Engineer - SRE

Sanderson
London
1 week ago
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Role: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: £80,000 - £105,000

As our Site Reliability Engineer, you'll work closely with our feature team and other colleagues to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You'll define error budgets that support finding the right balance between risk and reliability.

You'll also provide structure and help to our release process, suggesting and making improvements where possible. You'll scale systems sustain-ably through mechanisms like automation.

Looking for someone from a software development background

Ideal Candidate:

  • Very strong engineering skills in Java,JavaScript or Python
  • Open Telemetry experience
  • knowledge of Python Data Structures
  • Strong knowledge of deploy and release services, automation and troubleshooting
  • Experience of utilising tools and technology across the software development lifecycle
  • Experience using data to drive decisions, priority and root cause analysis
  • programming experience
  • Kubernetes and Docker
  • Deploy and release services experience
  • Experience with Greenfield projects
  • ideally 6+ years relevant experience
  • Grafana/Prometheus ideal
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders

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