Senior Platform Engineer


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Recruiter

Nigel Frank International

Listed on

2nd July 2019

Location

London

Salary/Rate

Negotiable

Salary Notes

Negotiable

Type

Permanent

Start Date

asap

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We're looking for a talented SRE Platform engineer to join our rapidly expanding team. Ideally we're looking for an experienced and well-rounded person to join our team and get on board with our new innovations and projects. Benefits:Ownership. Everyone gets stock options.Learning. Dedicated learning time every week, with budgets for resources, books and conferences.Wellness. Gym discounts, coffee and whatever you need to keep you at your best. Do you?Have a systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive?Have a history in automating operations processes via services and tools?Feel comfortable balancing technical direction with the business value needed factoring into solutions multiple constraints such as scale, distribution, costs, users, patterns?Advocate for iterative software delivery and world class engineering, demonstrating best practice? Role Ownership and Key ObjectivesOwnership of mission-critical production multi-tenanted SaaS operations: on-rota, monitoring, alerting, configuration and change management, incident management and disaster recoveryOwnership of service scalability, elasticity, fault-tolerance and disaster recoveryContinuously improving SLOs such as availability, performance and recoverabilityElimination of operational toil & engineering knowledge silosOwnership of production incidents post-mortems advocating blameless cultureKey contributor to service release management Key Success MetricsService availability, performance and recoverability SLOsService release failure ratesTime spent during on-rota on production issues Must Haves Skills & ExperiencePrevious job experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps EngineerExperience with building out multi-regional, scalable cloud platforms preferably on GCPExcellent understanding of DNS, cloud networking and infrastructure Excellent debugging and analytical skills: ability to isolate root cause across networking/infrastructure, application and database stacksExcellent understanding of Linux, Docker and Kubernetes (or similar container orchestration tool)Experience with configuration management tooling such as Consul, Zookeeper and etcdExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (i.e. Terraform/Puppet/Chef)Experience with languages such as Go, Node.js and Bash scripting Bonus Skills & ExperienceOperational management of message brokers at scale (i.e. Kafka, RabbitMQ etc)Operational management of NoSQL/in-memory databases at scale Running ETL type workloads at scaleExperience with service mesh technologies (i.e. Istio, Consul, Linkerd) To be shortlisted for this vacancy then contact Bethany Greenwood-Fox, Recruitment Consultant on,

[email protected] or 0191 814 7786

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