Site Reliability Engineer

Rocket Lab; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative firm that is redefining ride-hailing with a focus on user privacy and a five-star service. As part of the expanding infrastructure team, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing system availability and performance while implementing best practices for security. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to a culture of excellence and collaboration. Enjoy flexible working hours, stock options, and a variety of exceptional perks that make this an attractive opportunity for tech enthusiasts eager to make a difference.

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 solutions and coding in Golang or Python.
• Experience in infrastructure automation and container management.

Responsibilities

• Implement security best practices for infrastructure.
• Build monitoring systems and assist in incident investigations.

Skills

Cloud-based solutions (AWS/GCP)

Golang

Python

Linux troubleshooting

Infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform)

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)

RabbitMQ/Nats/Kafka administration

SQL/NoSQL databases administration

Communication skills

Time management

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Redis

Ansible

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

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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