Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their cloud-native services. In this role, you will build robust platforms that empower engineering teams, ensuring high reliability and performance. Your expertise in cloud platforms and Kubernetes will be crucial in driving innovation and educating teams on best practices. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on mission-critical systems while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary and generous leave policies. If you have a passion for problem-solving and a commitment to quality, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Competitive Base Salary

Annual Bonus

Comprehensive Pension Plan

30 days paid holiday

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

Private Health Insurance

Cash Plan including Dental

GymPass Subscription

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience managing cloud platforms and Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build foundational platforms for rapid and secure service provisioning.
• Educate teams on cloud-native best practices and architectural patterns.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Cloud-native site reliability

Code performance and maintainability

Debugging cloud-native systems

Architectural patterns

Empathy for software engineers

Education

10+ years of applicable experience

UK SC level clearance

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

GitHub

ArgoCD

CI/CD platforms

Terraform

Cloudformation

Observability tools

Job description

Your Impact

As a contributor in the APX SRE organization, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter. You are also obsessed about achieving the high quality and reliability our customers demand. You will work closely not only with the APX SRE organization, but your technical deliverables will reach the entire engineering organization to enable product teams to continuously deliver features on the vanguard of innovation.

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

• Ability to obtain UK SC level clearance.
• 10+ 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 Base Salary
• Annual Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit Eligibility
• Comprehensive Pension Plan with Matching Contribution
• 30 days paid holiday in addition to UK public holidays
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave for all employees
• Private Health Insurance
• Cash Plan including Dental, Optician and Therapeutic Treatment Plans
• GymPass Subscription
• Life assurance (x4 Annual Salary)
• Group income Protection
• Employee Assistance & Development Programs

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.