Site Reliability Engineer

Company overview

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The role

We need another Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. Remote within the UK. The team meets in London once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Duties

• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.

Requirements

• 3-5 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.

What we offer

• Private medical insurance.
• Company pension.
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays.
• Death in service benefit.
• Cycle to work scheme.

No agencies please.

Please send your CV. A cover letter is welcome but not required.

Start: Within 30 days.

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