Operations Site Reliability Engineer

Broadcom Inc.; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadcom Inc. is seeking an Operations Site Reliability Engineer to join their Bristol team. This role focuses on monitoring system performance, driving automation, and ensuring application availability within a critical operations function. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in systems engineering, operational experience in cloud platforms, and a proficiency in troubleshooting and automation tools.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Generous bonus scheme

Equity package

Competitive company pension

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance scheme

Ample on-site parking

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience administering Linux systems.
• 2+ years of operational experience with AWS or GCP.
• Experienced in scripting languages like Perl, Ruby, Python.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and ensure performance of production services.
• Coordinate incidents and communicate with stakeholders.
• Drive automation to improve application performance.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Problem Solving

Automation

Networking

Scripting

Education

Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related fields

Tools

Ansible Tower

Jenkins

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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Operations Site Reliability Engineer

Apply locations United Kingdom-Bristol-Almondsbury-Hempton Court time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R022662

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Job Description:

The primary responsibilities include:

· To form part of a critical operations function that is responsible for the monitoring, availability and performance of production services.

· Responding to stakeholder requests within agreed timescales or SLO

· Drive automation to reduce failures, manual tasks and therefore improving overall application performance and availability.

· Perform systems administration activities to ensure the smooth operation of applications across multiple platforms

· Coordinate and communicate with impacted stakeholders as per incident management process.

· Demonstrate ownership of events and incidents through to restoration

· Perform daily shift handovers to peers and management across multiple geographies.

· Support maintenance activities which impact production applications.

· Support critical systems that handle sensitive and proprietary data

· Create, maintain and update work instructions for troubleshooting and supporting applications.

· Contribute to the planning of application/infrastructure releases and configuration changes

· Provide input to administering and maintaining all production environments

· Patching and upgrade of existing applications

· Provide feedback and coaching to upstream teams (both internal and vendors) to reduce escalations and to continually improve overall experience for customers.

Professional Experience Required

• A degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related fields with related experience preferred
• 5+ years of experience administering Linux systems
• Strong hands-on experience of variants of linux distros
• 2+ years Operational experience of working with Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience of working with an automation platform to automate repetitive actions that reduce manual effort
• Familiarity with deployment tools such as Ansible Tower and Jenkins
• Experience in carrying out large deployments to global infrastructure
• Proficient with orchestration/configuration tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• Strong working knowledge of networking, packet tracing, understanding latency and throughput in order to pinpoint or resolve application issues.
• Thorough knowledge of HTTP(S), SMTP, TLS/SSL, DNS, LDAP, Kubernetes and Docker containers
• Experience of system/application administration in a distributed, customer-facing, high-availability and large-scale environments
• Experienced and confident in at least one scripting language such as Perl, shell, Ruby or Python.
• Experience of tuning and optimising monitoring systems.

Personal Experience Required

• A strong team player with the ability to grasp new technologies, adapt to change in methodologies, with a focus on delivery
• Extensive troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with respect to application technologies
• Ability to remain calm and work well under pressure
• A keen interest and desire to work within the security arena
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels up to senior management.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Generous bonus scheme
• Equity package
• Competitive company pension
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Private Medical Insurance (Individual or family)
• Life Assurance scheme (up to 4x salary)
• Ample on-site parking.

This role will need to participate in weekends and holidays on-call support as and when required.

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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