SRE Engineer

SRE Engineer

• Full-time
• UK - Remote/Hybrid

My client is a high growth ecommerce business which runs it technology stack on AWS. Due to the nature of the business the SRE Engineer will need to support sudden peaks in traffic smoothly scaling. They also host other ecommerce platform for other brands which also need supporting.

As an SRE Engineer you will maintain a scalable and reliable production environment for running software services while helping grow the customer base and product offering.

For the SRE Engineer role we are seeking:

• Technology stack: Kubernetes, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Python, Docker, AWS Lambda, AWS, Redis, ELK, monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana or Loki
• You have previous experience of working within SRE capacity or experience in DevOps and interest in moving into that field.
• Be responsible for the production environment.
• Improve the reliability, quality or our software
• Measure and optimise system performance
• Shared out-of-hours emergency on-call support on a rota basis
• Choose solutions that simplify our structure
• Assist and support the DevOps engineers: setting up the infrastructure for microservices
• Work closely with rest of the DevOps and QA team to load test applications

Responsibilities for the SRE Engineer include:

• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Partner with development teams to improve services
• Gather and analyse metrics from both operating systems and applications
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined SLAs
• Pro-actively document solutions and team knowledge
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing & release procedures
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts

Nice to have

• You are great at communication and an ability to explain complex technical issues
• Good familiarity with various AWS services
• Experience of scripting languages
• Familiarity with Terraform or similar configuration/infrastructure as code tools
• You’re excited about problem solving and supporting teams
• Have experience working with SRE problems or interested in moving into that field
• You are looking for a role that gives you space and autonomy to solve complex problems
• You love automation!