Job Description
We are looking for a Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer for a Remote contract position. You must be based within the UK as they maybe a rare need to visit the London Office. This position is a 1 year contract with the high possibility of being renewed. Working hours for this position are 11am - 7pm GMT.
As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability team you will lead the design, development and operation of large-scale, secure observability systems that make sure our services stay online and performant. We're a team of passionate software engineers that value quality and customer experience. Our team is based in the US and EMEA, and we embrace hybrid and remote work.
Examples of projects our team works on:
* Design, deploy and scale our Prometheus architecture to handle 100+ million active series and beyond.
* Deploy and operate large, high-performance ElasticSearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.
* Deploy and grow high-throughput data pipelines built on Kafka, handling hundreds of thousands of events per second.
* Design and build an alerting system that allows engineering teams to construct alerts from multiple data sources and alerting workflows.
* Write libraries and APIs that give engineers self-service access to our monitoring, logging, and other observability systems.
* Use Terraform to deploy public and private cloud infrastructure.
You are an ideal candidate if you:
* Have 5+ years experience designing, deploying and operating mid to large size distributed systems on VMs or bare metal machines running Linux (we run Debian and Ubuntu).
* Have 2+ years experience developing with languages like Ruby, Python, Go, Scala, or Bash.
* Are excited by the challenge of solving difficult problems in large distributed systems that deal with huge amounts of data.
* Want to work on a highly autonomous team that cares deeply about quality and customer experience.
* Are curious, learn fast and feel comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and systems to solve problems.
* Understand the value of observability and can work with other teams to help them better monitor their services.
* Are willing to be part of a production on-call rotation.
* Have direct experience with the following technologies (or similar): Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK) stack, Kafka, Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Graphite, Ansible, Terraform, Consul.
* Have strong experience in building out solitons based on Software engineering best practices.