SRE Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an SRE Engineer to combine software and IT engineering principles for building reliable systems. Responsibilities include scoping projects, designing software, and automating infrastructure management. Ideal candidates will have proficiency in programming languages like Python or Go, experience with Terraform, and familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitHub. Join this dynamic team in London to enhance reliable software deployment and observability solutions.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages.
• Development experience in front-end frameworks is a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Scope technical projects and break them down into user stories.
• Design and code software systems.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Proficiency in Python, Go, Java

Development experience in React or Angular

Proficient in Terraform

Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub Actions

Familiarity with observability tools like Splunk or Grafana

Strong problem-solving skills

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub

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.