SRE Systems Engineering Manager: Lead Uptime & Automation

Google

Greater London

On-site

GBP 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement.

Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of programming experience in one or more languages.
3 years of people management experience.
3 years leading projects and collaborating with administration or networking.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of software/systems engineers on projects for users and be directly responsible for uptime.
Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
Lead by example, mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution.
Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google's services.