Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: £79,200 per year

Job No: Tectre1138

Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: up to £79,200(Dependent on experience)

Role: Permanent

Location: Leeds

Agile Working Options

Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Details:

As one of the leading retail banks in the UK, our client is undertaking a major engineering transformation. Their goal is to put technology at the forefront of their culture and transform banking.

Our client’s team in General Insurance is passionate about creating new services for their customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Their culture brings together smart, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.

As a Site Reliability Engineer within the General Insurance department, you’ll be a part of a small but expanding SRE team responsible for driving high reliability into our clients’ systems by working closely with software development and IT-operations teams.

As one of the early joiners in this area You’ll help shape our clients SRE strategy and mentor engineers in product teams to produce optimal code with a service engineering focus.

Key Responsibilities:

* The SRE team will be focusing on our clients General Insurance production services and you’ll have significant influence on design and the delivery of our clients’ products, features and new technical capabilities.

* Guarantee the reliability of our clients General Insurance production service providing support to a global and diverse organization.

* Provide platforms and tooling that enable shipping to production easy and reliably with a real attention to quality and control.

* Mitigate incidents as part of our client’s blameless post-mortem culture and build solutions and automation to prevent them from happening again.

* Through our clients post incident reviews identify and mitigate weaknesses in incident management or software delivery optimising their SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) where required.

* Ensure all necessary monitoring, alerting and backup solutions are in place. Using SLOs to guide prioritization putting reliability front and centre.

* Dive into large codebases, not being afraid of programming more than a few lines code yourself.

* Spend a small amount of your time dealing with incidents and internal change requests. This is not a service-desk or incident-only position, the vast majority of your time will be spent creating and optimizing our clients’ tools and infrastructure.

Key Skills:

This is a relatively senior level role, and our client is looking for the following skills and experience:

* Experience in software engineering and automation in one or more modern programming languages.

* Strong resilience and determination to make a difference.

* A true passion for monitoring, observability and an understanding of the importance of reliability in our client’s large-scale production systems for their customers.

* Experience in public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization.

* Prior experience with SRE or SRE concepts.

Our client’s core technical stack include:

* Modern Web Tech such as JavaScript, NodeJS, React/Redux.

* More Traditional\Compiled Tech such as C#. SQL. XML.

* Code Management and deployment tech such as GIT\TFS, Urban Code Deploy, Jenkins.

* Automated testing capabilities such as Selenium, Cucumber.

Our client would also like to see experience of:

* Working within an Agile environment, working in Scrum and Waterfall environments, and being flexible to work with a mix of methodologies and inspire change quickly.

* Passion to lead and work collaboratively across teams in order to align to Strategy and meet the overall goals of the Bank and Partners.

* A hunger to learn and self-improve with a passionate not just about the result, but how you get there.

* Excitement about enabling others to achieve greater results than one can achieve alone and being part of a wider delivery team responsible for end-to-end solutions.

How to Apply:

If you meet the above criteria for the SRE role, please respond to this with an up-to-date copy of your CV. Our office hours are between 9am – 5pm Monday through to Friday. You may not hear from us straight away due to the level of applications we receive every day. We can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position.

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