SRE Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment firm is looking for an SRE Engineer to build and maintain reliable, scalable systems. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, particularly in Python or Go, and experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform. Responsibilities include developing software, automating deployments, and ensuring system observability. This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse projects in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Development experience in React and/or Angular is a plus.
• Problem-solving skills for troubleshooting complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Scope technical projects and break them down into user stories.
• Contribute to the design and coding of software systems.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software deployment.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools.
• Define and maintain observability solutions for applications.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues.

Skills

Proficiency in a programming language

Development experience in React/Angular

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Hands-on experience with Jenkins

Familiarity with observability tools

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Splunk

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Our client is looking for a SRE Engineer combining software and IT engineering principles to build and maintain reliable, scalable, and high-performing systems.

Job Responsibilities:

• Scope technical projects and break them down into user stories and tasks within an engineering team
• Directly contribute to the design and coding of our software systems
• Contribute to Build systems that are secure, reliable, scalable, and extensible
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of our software
• Automate the provisioning and management of our infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Define, implement, and maintain observability solutions for our applications to ensure we can proactively detect system degradation, easily understand system state, and quickly diagnose issues
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, including performance tuning and capacity planning

Required Skills and Experience

• Programming & Scripting: Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Development experience in React and/or Angular is a plus (Full stack Java Developer)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) is a must have and one should be good at coding in terraform
• CICD Tools hands on: Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Cloud Deployment pipelines
• Observability Tools - Splunk/Graphana/Datadog and Distributed Tracing, ELF, & Dynatrace
• Problem-Solving: Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems and debug problems effectively.