Role

The role of the team is to drive digital services towards a cloud-native operating model. You will work closely with teams across Digital IT, assisting them to build robust, scalable services, improve quality, and accelerate delivery.

As an SRE, you will be responsible for the reliability and performance of production applications and services and for implementing tooling and automation into operations functions to improve service availability, scalability, and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring applications and services scale and perform consistently and reliably.
• Maintaining production services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Responding to incidents and providing 24x7 standby support for those services in the SRE portfolio.
• Working closely with software development teams across Digital IT to analyze system and application metrics and devise strategies to enhance reliability, scalability and performance.
• Automating operational functions to increase scalability and speed of operational processes.
• Analyzing and proposing new tools and platforms to support cloud operations.

Requirements:

You will have at least 3 years’ experience as a software developer. You will have written and supported code in production for more than a year. You will have written auto-scaling, geographically diverse microservices. You will have developed software in multiple languages.

You will have at least 5 years’ experience as a system administrator. You will have supported business critical services in production. You will have experience as part of a cloud scale operational support team.

Skills:

The successful candidate will have experience developing microservices in multiple languages and on multiple cloud platforms. They will be familiar with API development and lifecycle management, test-driven development and automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, packaging, containerization, and infrastructure automation.

The candidate must be highly analytical, detail oriented and have a demonstrated ability to work with complex logic and other people’s code. They must demonstrate a mindset of automation, and advanced troubleshooting skills.

The candidate will be familiar with containers, and sidecar and proxy service edges.

The candidate will be familiar with cloud based observation, monitoring, and logging platforms.

The successful candidate will have familiarity with a number of the following tools: Git, GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, Nexus, Selenium, Ansible, Capistrano, Consul, Terraform, Pact, SOAP-UI, Junit, JIRA, Rally, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Cucumber, Honeycomb, Envoy, Kabana, Logstash, Splunk, Honeycomb, New Relic, and others.

The candidate will need to be able to develop close working relationships with developers and operations support staff across the organization, and mentor them in how to develop and maintain robust cloud native services.