Site Reliability Engineer

Wheely; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A modern ride-hailing platform is looking for an infrastructure engineer to enhance their secure infrastructure. The role involves implementing security measures, working with cloud solutions, and automating processes. Candidates should possess strong skills in AWS, Kubernetes, and programming, and will benefit from flexible working hours and exceptional perks including stock options and medical insurance.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Employee stock options plan

Lunch allowance

Medical insurance, including dental

Life and critical illness insurance

Best-in-class equipment

Professional development subsidies

Qualifications

• Proven experience with cloud-based solutions (AWS/GCP).
• Ability to code in Golang, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of Linux troubleshooting, including networking and file systems.
• Experience in infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, etc.
• Experience with containers and platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Good writing and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement best practices to ensure infrastructure security.
• Finalize centralized authorization system for developers and services.
• Build monitoring and alert systems for proactive incident management.
• Ensure comprehensive audit of access to infrastructure.
• Help with incident investigation related to infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud-based solutions (AWS/GCP)

Coding in Golang

Linux troubleshooting

Infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform)

Containers and platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)

RabbitMQ/Nats/Kafka administration

SQL/NoSQL databases administration

Good communication skills

Time management

Team player mentality

Love for automation

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Redis

Ansible

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Sentry

Loki

Jenkins

Job description

Wheely is not a traditional ride-hailing company. We are building a platform with user privacy at its core while successfully scaling a five-star service to millions of rides across multiple cities.

Over the past few years, we have rebuilt our infrastructure almost from scratch, and we are now expanding the infrastructure team.

As a part of the team, you will work to minimize the number of incidents (availability, performance, security), speed up time-to-delivery of new features to customers, building flexible, protected, high availability infrastructure to ensure every customer’s journey or request runs smoothly.

Responsibilities

• Implement the best practices to ensure the proper security level of our infrastructure
• Finalize implementation of a centralized authorization system in the infrastructure for developers and services
• Build comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to proactively work with incidents
• Ensure a comprehensive audit of access to any parts of the infrastructure
• Help teams with incident investigation related to infrastructure
• Participate in growing the engineering culture and DevOps practices to make Wheely one of the best places to work

Requirements

• Proven experience with cloud-based solutions (AWS/GCP)
• Ability to code in Golang, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of Linux troubleshooting, including networking and file systems
• Experience in infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, etc.
• Experience with containers and platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with administration RabbitMQ/Nats/Kafka
• Experience with administration of SQL/NoSQL databases
• Good writing and verbal communication skills to ensure efficient communication within and outside the team and to explain your decisions
• Ability to focus on what matters most, manage your time, and get things done
• To be a team player, ready to help engineers investigate issues or teach them new things
• Love to automate manual work and try new modern technology/approaches

Tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Sentry, Loki, Jenkins.

What we Offer

We expect excellence from our people — both on the road and in the office. In return, we offer flexible working hours, stock options, and a range of exceptional perks and benefits.

• On-site role located in West London
• Employee stock options plan
• Lunch allowance
• Medical insurance, including dental
• Life and critical illness insurance
• Best-in-class equipment
• Professional development subsidies

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