Lead Site Reliability Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Reading; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive software company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to empower users with reliable features and performance. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, ensuring the maturity, security, and scalability of their cloud infrastructure. This role allows for autonomy in shaping the team's direction and requires strong expertise in DevOps practices, AWS services, and collaboration in an agile environment. The position offers remote work with one day every two weeks in the office.

Benefits

Company benefits

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Extensive background in Site Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure management.
• Strong experience in developing and deploying APIs.
• Familiarity with AWS and serverless computing.

Responsibilities

• Run the SRE function on a day-to-day basis.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure high availability and performance.
• Lead and mentor team members in best practices.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Infrastructure Management

API Development

Containerization (Kubernetes)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

AWS Services

Agile Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

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Location: Remote working *1 day in every 2 weeks at our Stoke-On-Trent office (5 mins from station).

Salary: £Competitive + company benefits (Full time/permanent role)

About Click Dealer

At Click Dealer, we’re passionate about building software and digital tools that make life easier for automotive dealerships - driving better results, and transforming the way dealers manage, market and sell vehicles.

Established in 1999, Click Dealer is part of the Evolution Funding Group of companies backed by the Global Investment firm, Carlyle Group. Today, we’re proud to be trusted by over 1,800 independent and franchise dealerships across the UK.

The SRE Team

We count on our site reliability engineers (SREs) to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance levels to pursue their goals.

About the role

This is a hands-on role. Working as part of the Software Engineering team, you will run the SRE function on a day-to-day basis working closely with the Head of Engineering providing SRE expertise whilst collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences.

The successful candidate will review, lead & drive our strategic approach to the maturity, security, performance and scalability of our software & services across our cloud infrastructure. You will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in which to shape the future direction of the team using your extensive background and skills in:

• Site Reliability Engineering/DevOps/Infrastructure/Platform management
• Development and deployment of APIs using containerised environments such as Kubernetes
• Implementing/enhancing IaC specifically Terraform.
• Collaborating with business stakeholders in an agile environment
• Leading, coaching and mentoring team members to achieve success
• AWS and its services, particularly IAM, S3, EKS, Networking.
• CloudFormation/CDK
• Exposure to working with serverless computing