🚀 Site Reliability Engineer🚀
📍 Location: Brighton
💖 Department: Technology
📅 Position type: Full-time

The role

As part of our Technology function, the Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for delivering features to the business safer and sooner. We use cutting edge techniques and technologies to automate previously manual processes. We use delivery and monitoring pipelines to maintain a self-healing system that can respond to incidents without bothering humans. We tie technology decisions directly to key goals for the business.

We are looking for someone with a passion for Devops and Cloud Engineering and the desire to utilise and develop their existing skills and experience. The importance of providing MPB with reliable, scalable and extensible deployment processes and environments is recognised as a critical element of our growth and continued success.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining automated processes, infrastructure, and ephemeral environments through use of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management. Working alongside your colleagues in SRE, P&E, and across the wider business to provide stable tooling and systems to support the development, deployment, monitoring, and running of features through to production

What you will be doing

• Support the provision of ephemeral feature environments to enable development and testing of features and changes.

• Support, develop, and maintain our automated pipelines

• Follow accepted engineering practices to ensure your changes are version controlled, tested, monitored, and released safely.

• Take responsibility for identifying and developing relevant skills on a continuous basis.

• Ensure the suitable security posture of our running infrastructure, applications, and any changes made to them.

• Implementation and support of Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

• Responding to, diagnosing and resolving production issues, in conjunction with other SMEs in the Product & Engineering team
  

What we are looking for

Essential

• Proved experience in a Devops, SRE, Cloud Engineer, or Software Development role.

• Experience with a programming language (We use Python)

• Experience working with observability tooling across the core signals: metrics, logs, and traces.

• Experience with version control systems such as Git

• Experience working with a Cloud hosting provider (we use GCP, but any major cloud provider would be fine)

• Experience with an infrastructure as code tool (We use Terraform)

• Experience with Linux

• Experience with a CI tool such as Jenkins, Github Actions

• Awareness of networking concepts such as IP addressing, DNS, NAT, firewalls, port-forwarding, proxying.

Desirable

• Awareness of Kubernetes

• Awareness of MySQL and/or Postgresql databases

• Awareness of CDNs such as Cloudflare, Cloudfront, or Akama