Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance cloud systems for law enforcement. This role involves creating robust automation tools, developing performance metrics, and guiding engineering practices for improved reliability. Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits while contributing to a mission-driven environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary and pension with employer match

30 days holiday

Paid parental leave for all

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Development Programs

Snacks in the office

Qualifications

• 7+ years of applicable experience managing cloud platforms.
• Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools.

Responsibilities

• Build foundational platforms for engineering teams.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code.
• Educate the organization on new architectural patterns.

Skills

Problem-solving

Cloud-native site reliability best practices

Automation

Code quality and maintainability

Tools

Terraform

Cloudformation

GitHub

CI/CD platforms

Kubernetes

Job description

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon, we're on a mission to Protect Life. We're explorers, pursuing society's most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you'll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Your Impact

Join us in shaping the future of infrastructure automation for law enforcement systems. Bring your leadership, technical expertise, and high bar for quality to a team that's building the foundation for fast, reliable cloud services worldwide.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in the Axon IaC group, your responsibilities will include contributing to architectural decisions, tool selection and guiding best practices for our IaC provisioning pipelines. You will drive engineering projects that empower teams across Axon to deliver new features efficiently. You are obsessed with achieving the high performance and reliability our customers demand and reducing toil. You will work closely with both SRE's and SWE's, and your technical deliverables will join forces with partner teams in building our cloud infrastructure provisioning platform and CICD pipelines of the future.

The ideal candidate has a passion for Infrastructure as Code and building robust delivery pipelines. You take pride in setting high standards for code quality and maintainability, and you thrive in environments where excellence in engineering practices is the norm. With a platform-first mindset, you'll champion automation in infrastructure delivery-reducing manual toil and accelerating our path to full infrastructure automation.
What You'll Do

Location: London, England

• Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, and securely.
• Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices.
• Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.
• Employ strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems.
• Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
• Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self-service.
• Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of applicable experience.
• Experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar.
• Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar.
• Experience using languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar.
• Experience of code collaboration such as GitHub, ArgoCD, or similar.
• Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, tests, and releases.
• Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools for provisioning infrastructure such as Terraform, Cloudformation, or similar.
• Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems.
• Familiarity with building flexible and testable Infrastructure as Code modules.
• Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and pension with employer match
• 30 ays holiday
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Development Programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Don't meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

Axon's mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon's impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent - regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances - and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.