Senior Site Reliability Engineer


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Recruiter

Direct Line Group

Listed on

12th September 2019

Location

Bromley

Salary/Rate

£60000 - £80000

Salary Notes

Excellent

Type

Permanent

Start Date

asap

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What we're looking for:

We need people who won't accept doing the same thing day in and day out. Are you eager to make services run more effective, efficient operationally and expertly? Do you want to become a part of Direct Line Group and improve our services to customers and our business.

You will have a deep knowledge of applications, the code, how it runs, how it is configured, and the underlying services that it utilises, as well as how it can be managed effectively and efficiently.

Who you'll be working with:

Sitting within Application Development and Maintenance (AD&M), we provide a number of services within Technology Services (TS), including Platform Engineering, Application Development and Maintenance as well as end to end testing to ensure high availability of systems.

You will typically spend up to 50% of your time dealing with the daily care and feeding of our current software applications. The rest of your time will be spent working on programs from implementing new business functionality, to assisting any of the DLG business and brands as well as helping us remove technical debt from our services and improving the current systems reliability.

What you'll be doing:

You will monitor and review application performance

Working with core infrastructure software components, Middleware (WebSphere / Tomcat / Apache), Database (i.e. Oracle or SQL Server, Cloud Native Database Services) and Java.

Managing service runnings on Windows, Linux or Cloud Platforms

Handle on-call and emergency support ensuring software has good logging and diagnostics

Craft, build and maintain operational runbooks

Working closely with other key support departments including, Testing & Release Management, Application Maintenance to ensure specialist services are utilised

Contribute to overall product roadmap whilst working in Agile delivery environments

You will have analytical and problem-solving, with the ability to come up with practical solutions within a production environment in a time critical environment.

What we'll give you:

Come join us and you'll find yourself in the middle of one of the most on-the-go teams in the business, with autonomy and exposure to industry leaders on huge household brand names. We're always encouraging internal development and you'll have access to loads of learning opportunities, events and conferences to build your industry knowledge.

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