Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Glasgow - hybrid, 2 days per week in office
A leading Financial Services firm are recruiting for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to become part of a newly formed Core SRE Team. This team will establish a Centre of Excellence to enhance and promote SRE best practices.
About the Role
As a key hire, you will play a pivotal role in raising awareness and driving adoption of SRE methodologies within various teams. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will design, build, and optimise automation frameworks, observability tools, and incident response mechanisms. You will act as a trusted advisor, providing strategic guidance and consultative support to help teams improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
Responsibilities
* Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
* Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
* Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
* Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
* Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
Qualifications
* Proficiency in Programming and Scripting - This includes expertise in languages such as Python, Powershell, or Go, which are essential for automating routine tasks and system deployments.
* Incident Management and Troubleshooting - The ability to manage incidents effectively, troubleshoot issues swiftly, and perform root cause analysis to prevent future incidents.
* Systems Engineering and Automation - A deep understanding of systems engineering, including operating systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure. Proficiency in automation tools is crucial for maintaining system reliability at scale.
* Influential Communication Skills - The ability to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, ensuring alignment, inspiring and motivating them to embrace new mindsets, cultures, and SRE working practices. This skill is crucial for driving meaningful change and fostering a collaborative environment where innovative ideas can thrive.
* Knowledge of Cloud Computing - Familiarity with cloud platforms and services, which is increasingly important as more infrastructure moves to the cloud.