Site reliability engineer

Quorso UK Limited; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS startup in London is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the stability and security of their technical stack. Responsibilities include monitoring integrations, identifying performance issues, and maintaining documentation. Ideal candidates will have 4+ years in backend or devops roles with strong skills in Ruby and Kubernetes. The position offers a competitive salary between £60-80k, healthcare, pension, and additional benefits.

Benefits

Healthcare

Pension

Paid time off for extra weekend work

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a backend/devops engineer.
• Strong knowledge of logging and monitoring implementation.
• Experience with raw SQL and slow query investigation.

Responsibilities

• Own monitoring and logging integrations.
• Identify and log performance/security issues.
• Participate in technical implementation planning.

Skills

Ruby

SQL

Kubernetes

Debugging skills

Git

Linux

Monitoring tools

Tools

Azure

AWS

Helm charts

Job description

The role

As a Site reliabilityengineer you will focus on improving stability and security aspectsof the technical stackofQuorso by:

• Owning monitoring and logging integrations, as well as alerting capabilities by improving andautomating currently manual processes
• Identifying andlogging discovered performance and security related issues
• Working on remediation for the discovered issues related to backend and infrastructural layers, as well as maintaining documentation for remediation procedures where applicable
• Participating in detailed technical implementation planning for the larger engineering projects

About us

Quorso is one of Retail’s most exciting SaaS startups. Our Agile Stores technology simplifies retailers’ data into daily Next Best Actions (“Missions”) for every store, guaranteed to engage teams and drive sales.

We’re an Enterprise platform, targeting large multi-site retailers. We’re growing fast with some of the largest retailers in the world already using Quorso to react faster and become more Agile in the face of a rapidly-changing landscape

We are well funded by one of the world’s largest investors, and our investors include CEOs and Chairpersons of a number of the 100 largest companies in the world.

Requirements

• Experience of working in the role or as backend/devops engineer for at least 4 years on projects using Ruby, SQL and Kubernetes
• Ability to quickly learn platform stack andstaying up to date with ongoing development
• Experience in proactive implementation of logging and monitoring layers to tailor them to actual platform needs based on our internal practices and external commitments
• Contributing in defining SLAs, experience in setting and managing SLOs
• Maintaining documentation of procedures on how to remediate known issues
• Experience with raw SQL, slow query investigation on large data sets
• Good knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm charts, major Azure and AWS cloud services, as well asmonitoring tools (cloud native andElastic Cloud)
• Excellent debugging skills and ability to produce updates/fixes to Ruby code and optimise SQL queries
• Git and Git flow approach, solid experience and understanding of main commands - branching, stashing, rebasing, fast forwarding, pushing changes
• Solid understanding of Linux, navigational and search commands, regular expressions
• Solid practical usage of text editors and supportive tools for efficient coding

Core Offer details

• £60-80k if UK based (salary will be geography dependent
• Commitment to work for at least 2 weekend days during each month (paid extra, equivalent number of day offs in lieu each following week)
• Healthcare, pension and other benefits