Site Reliability Engineer

Ocient; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocient is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to maintain and expand our hosted data warehouse service, with a focus on high availability, performance, and security.

Based in the UK and operating on a remote model, you will design monitoring, automate deployment on Linux, and contribute to incident response. UK security clearance is a plus and you will work with CI/CD tools and common monitoring stacks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of system administration in production environments.
• Holds, or has previously recently held, UK Security Clearance
• Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or other languages.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar.
• Experience with Git.
• Ability to work flexible hours and on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and related services, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for observability and incident management.
• Automate deployment and configuration of Linux-based servers and applications.
• Develop and maintain security practices to protect data and services.
• Assist with automation of testing pipelines and monitoring of test infrastructure.

Skills

3+ years sysadmin

UK Security Clearance

Bash

Python

ELK stack

Prometheus

Grafana

Zabbix

Dynatrace

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

DR/Backup

CI/CD

Git

On-call

Job description

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.
• Holds, or has previously recently held, UK Security Clearance
• 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.