Site Reliability Engineer

Ocient; Northmoor Green or Moorland; Remote; GBP 74.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Ocient is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our remote UK team. You will maintain and scale Ocient's hosted data warehouse service, focusing on availability, performance, and security.

Responsibilities include building monitoring and alerting, automating deployments on Linux, and implementing robust security practices. You will participate in on-call rotations and collaborate with DB and cloud teams to improve reliability across our services.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 3+ years of production system administration experience.
• Scripting with Bash or Python.
• Experience with monitoring/alerting tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI) and Git.

Aufgaben

• Support design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and services, ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency.
• Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for all services to enable observability and incidents.
• Automate deployment and configuration of Linux servers and applications for hosted offerings.
• Develop and maintain rigorous security practices to protect our applications and customer data.
• Assist in automating testing pipelines and monitoring test infrastructure.

Kenntnisse

System administration

Bash

Python

On-call support

SQL & DBA

Security best practices

Git

CI/CD

Networking

Tools

ELK Stack

Graylog

InfluxDB

Prometheus

Zabbix

Grafana

Dynatrace

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Git

Proxmox

KVM

VMware

AWS

GCP

Azure

Jobbeschreibung

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote (United Kingdom)
Hiring Manager: Service Delivery Engineering Manager
Estimated salary range: £74,000 to £90,000

The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations.

Position Overview

Ocient is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for solving hard problems to help maintain and expand Ocient's "as a service" offering of its cutting-edge data warehouse.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and related services — including message queues and storage systems — ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency.
• Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for all services to facilitate observability and incident management.
• Automate deployment and configuration Linux-based servers, including the OS and the numerous applications that compose our hosted offerings.
• Develop and maintain rigorous security practices to protect our applications and customer data.
• Assist with automation of testing pipelines for the Ocient DB and monitoring of test infrastructure.

Ideal Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in system administration in production environments.
• Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or other languages.
• Experience with system and software monitoring and alerting tools, such as the ELK stack, Graylog, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Dynatrace, or others.
• Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with data archiving, backup and disaster recovery
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment experience with Jenkins, Gitlab CI or others.
• Experience with source control tools like Git.
• Ability to work flexible hours and serve in on call rotations.

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have

• Knowledge of OWASP principles for application security.
• Experience with server / system virtualization and containerization technologies e.g., ProxMox, KVM, VMware.
• Experience with SQL and Database Administration.
• Experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure. (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with SSAE18 SOC2 Compliance.
• Experience with networking administration, including VPN, proxy, DNS, and firewall configuration.