Site Reliability Engineer

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge that will allow you to demonstrate your skills and share your experience within a fast-paced and dynamic working environment?

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our IT Services Team.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for providing the tooling, processes and support that his or her team requires to reliably deploy applications to production and detect issues and rollback changes quickly.

You will also be responsible for ensuring that Service Level Objectives are met, and applications can scale to cope with demand.

Sound interesting? At Evri we encourage flexible working that fits the individual as well as the team, whether that be from the office, from home or a mixture of both. Let us know your preference in your application form, as well as the working pattern you’re looking for e.g. full or part-time hours – we will do our best to accommodate your request, wherever possible.

Your Responsibilities

• Maintaining documentation and runbooks, ensuring that the knowledge acquired in SRE is available across the organisation and built into the squads as a discipline
• Supporting shared services that are used in development, testing and production environments (e.g. Gitlab, Concourse, Jenkins etc.)
• Improving the efficiency of the software development processes by providing tooling and guidance that improves infrastructure resilience, security and cost optimisation
• Supporting your team in dealing with operational issues such as availability, performance and scalability Influencing Service Level Objectives, Non-Functional Requirements and infrastructure requirements
• Highlighting deviations from technology standards to the TDA (Technical Design Authority)
• Ensuring that the Service Level Objectives in your area are met

Your Experience

Does this sound like you?

• Experience with Windows and/or Linux administration
• Experience with AWS is essential
• Experience with application containerisation platforms and registry e.g. Docker & ECR
• A background in at least one of the following scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go)
• Knowledge and/or experience with Java
• Some experience with configuration management tools and infrastructure as code (we use a mixture of Ansible and CloudFormation)
• Some practical experience with CI/CD tools (we use Jenkins and Concourse CI)
• A background in software development is considered a plus

Why Work Here?

We’re constantly looking at ways to become a more inclusive and diverse employer, and our benefits package is important to us. Here’s some of what we currently offer:

• Flexible working; work from home, or in the office – whatever suits you. You can also choose your working pattern – if you’d like to work full-time, or part-time, just let us know!
• 26 days holiday + bank holidays plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days
• Bonus Scheme; an annual bonus that can earn up to 15% if you really push the boundaries
• Career progression framework; map out your next steps in your career
• Pension; 3% employer contribution on top of what you choose to commit yourself
• A range of discounts from our clients
• We also have a range of flexible benefits such as additional life assurance, critical life insurances and others to choose from