Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Monitoring and Observability - Macquarie Group

ZipRecruiter; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services group is seeking a Monitoring and Observability Engineer to implement and manage log analytics and monitoring services. The role requires over 5 years' experience with Splunk and proficiency in AWS Cloud technologies. Candidates will be offered a hybrid working model and a variety of employee benefits including parental leave and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

25 days of annual leave

Paid parental leave

Health and life insurance

Learning and development opportunities

Work from home equipment reimbursement

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience administrating, supporting and implementing solutions on Splunk.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud technologies.
• Ability to communicate effectively across a range of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Run and maintain enterprise-wide log analytics and monitoring services.
• Implement improvements to the log analytics platform.
• Provide on-call support for urgent incidents.

Skills

Monitoring and log analytics

Splunk administration

Product engineering and architecture

AWS Cloud technologies

Python programming

Java programming

Shell scripting

Linux administration

Effective communication

Job description

Overview

Our team is dedicated to running and uplifting the current environment to the NextGen IT Monitoring and Observability stage. We run and maintain enterprise-wide log analytics, monitoring, and observability services, ensuring optimal performance and customer satisfaction.

At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You'll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

As a Monitoring and Observability Engineer, you will run and maintain enterprise-wide log analytics, monitoring, and observability services. You will be responsible for improving the value provided by the log analytics platform to drive cost savings while enhancing customer satisfaction. Your role includes BAU monitoring and log analytics incident support and change activities, leading change activities, improvement, and migration initiatives. You will apply and grow your technical expertise in Splunk and related technologies, perform analysis to understand stakeholder requirements, and deliver solutions. Additionally, you will provide on-call support for urgent incidents, triages, or maintenance activities.

What you offer

• Experience in monitoring and log analytics
• 5+ years of experience administrating, supporting and implementing solutions on Splunk
• Product engineering and architecture experience
• Knowledge of AWS Cloud technologies
• Proficiency in Python/Java programming
• Shell scripting skills
• Linux administration skills
• Strong team player with the ability to communicate effectively across a range of stakeholders

What we offer

At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
• 26 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers
• Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Access to a wide range of salary sacrificing options
• Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including, comprehensive medical and life insurance cover
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Access to company funded emergency and backup dependent care services
• Recognition and service awards
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We\'re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow's technology solutions.