Site Reliability Engineer I

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.

Role overview:

The Site Reliability Engineer I will define SLOs with product teams, improve alerting and help lead incidents when they happen. Brassline's Production Engineering team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load. You can work from home anywhere in the UK. We have no office requirement. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Duties:

• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog

What you need:

• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems

Preferred:

• CKA or CKS certification
• EBPF-based tooling
• Multi-region or active-active architecture

Benefits:

• Private medical insurance
• Workplace pension
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Long service awards
• Employee assistance programme
• Share options

No agencies please.

Start: Immediately.

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