SRE Engineer

£65,000 - £75,000 annual salary

London - Hybrid - 1 day per fortnight onsite

A prestigious, high performing and market leading software as a service organisation (SaaS) are looking for a SRE Engineer to support them in providing the highest standards of availability, scalability, performance, and security for their products across multiple cloud vendors and their own physical infrastructure.

This London based business has a great family feel, with circa 100 employees. This owner managed business takes pride in looking after their employees, recognising the need for flexibility and recognition of lives outside of work. The organisation is close to a full 5 stars on Glassdoor.

You will be joining a team whose mission is to ensure the reliability of their platform and core services, ensuring that they meet the needs of their internal and external users. You will contribute to projects across the entire breadth of their tech stack, from planning all the way through to delivery and maintenance.

What experience and skills you might have:

A Strong background in system automation using configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef or Puppet
Strong experience in building and managing systems, infrastructure, and applications through automation (Terraform, Ansible, K8s, Helm, Go)
A solid understanding of containerisation and container orchestration using tools such as Kubernetes
A strong background in SRE/DevOps or Linux System Administration
Familiarity with Public Cloud Services like AWS | GCP | Azure
Familiarity with co-located physical infrastructures (currently hybrid)

Tech Stack:

Our clients' applications are written in Ruby (with Rails) or Java. Client-side web apps are written in React, and some services in Clojure, Java and Go. The platform consists of:

Multiple Kubernetes Cluster for Container orchestration
Apache Kafka for event messaging
Postgres for data storage
OpenStack Swift for Object storage
Juniper & Cisco networking devices
Several internally written tools for managing the platform written in Go

Benefits:

Competitive salary & pension scheme
Personal performance bonus
26 days holiday each calendar year (+ bank holidays)
Bupa health & dental cover (including Babylon Virtual GP)
Group life insurance (4x annual salary)
Employee Assistance Program and Bereavement Counselling & Probate Helpline
AIG Smart Health

If this sounds of interest, please apply for more information