SRE / DevOps Engineer

Skypath; Staffordshire Moorlands; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an SRE/DevOps Engineer to join a leading software house. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, this role offers the chance to stay hands-on and participate in strategic decisions.

We want someone with fresh ideas and supporting experience who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership and implementation across multiple projects from our SRE strategy that focuses on maturity, scalability, resilience, security and automation.
• Manage and maintain environments to ensure high availability and security.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions using tools like Terraform.
• Manage AWS services – monitoring, investigating and fixing any issues if they arise.
• Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters for efficiency, stability and high availability.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery, maturing our current approaches.
• Design and implement robust monitoring systems that proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and system failures.
• Automate manual tasks to improve operational efficiency and reduce technical debt.
• Collaborate with other SRE engineers to ensure resilience and scalability across the platform.
• Work with our teams to directly influence and drive the adoption of SRE best practices and ways of working within our microservice architecture.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications supporting out-of-hours changes where necessary.

Experience & Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline.
• 7+ years experience working in DevOps, SRE or infrastructure management roles.
• Familiar with AWS and its services, particularly IAM, S3, EKS, Networking.
• Experience with implementing/enhancing IaC specifically Terraform.
• Experience using CloudFormation/CDK.
• Working knowledge of containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to working with serverless computing.
• Experience in delivering monitoring and alerting solutions for diverse systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Experience working with database technology, e.g. MySQL & Postgres.

Place of work: Remote with two days a month in the office.