Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote (UK)

Salary: £55,000 - £66,000 per annum + benefits

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. Wickfield Labs builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors.

The role:

The Associate Site Reliability Engineer will define SLOs with product teams, improve alerting and help lead incidents when they happen. You can work from home anywhere in the UK. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Your responsibilities:

• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling

Required qualifications:

• 0-2 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems

Compensation and benefits:

• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Share options
• Annual bonus
• Cycle to work scheme

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wickfield Labs Ltd.