Site Reliability Engineer - remote

Quix
Posted 3 years ago

Location

We accept application from candidates based in the UK, Spain and Czech Republic.

The Role
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of our DevOps to help deliver and scale a platform that developers love to use. Your main task will be to improve our service level by improving our infrastructure, alerting, backup and disaster recovery.
As a passionate technologist, you’ll be able to contribute to discussions across the stack to ensure the best outcome.


Join us and bring your passion!


Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure that we ship software that meets security and uptime SLA
  • Create disaster recovery plan and execute when needed
  • Introduce additional monitoring and alerting for the services and infrastructure
  • Improve security for internal and external facing services
  • Automate work including infrastructure needs
  • Keeping services running or getting them back up and running quickly when a failure occurs
  • Help diagnose infrastructure related issues
  • Maintain documentation for recurring issues / tasks

Required non-technical skills

  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Team player
  • Willingness to learn

Required experience

  • Advanced experience operating large-scale production systems
  • Significant experience with one of the main cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker in production
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging and alerting (DataDog, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Grafana etc)
  • Backup &Disaster recovery in cloud
  • Networking (DNS, load balancer, etc)
  • Infrastructure automation using Terraform or alternatives
  • Cloud security experience (networking rules, access management, rate limit etc)
  • Unix / linux shell

Nice to have

  • Azure cloud experience
  • Kafka experience
  • Helm
  • Ansible
  • Source control (git)

Benefits

  • Work from home anywhere in the UK and EU (may be required to travel occasionally)
  • 2 annual team meet-ups in EU destinations (normally beaches and mountains)
  • Generous stock options commensurate with the opportunity
  • 37 days holiday (including all public holidays in your region)
  • 2 additional paid days off a year for volunteering work
  • Budget to choose own hardware and office set-up
  • Training and personal development budget
  • Regular socials with paid food/drink/games allowance