Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

Our Senior Site Reliability Engineers are people who have the required skills to lead by example and are able to build strong and valuable relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. They have the ability to face into ambiguity and understand how to make sense of complexity.

What you’ll do

• You will be responsible for maintaining and improving front-end applications for our most critical customer servicing web channels within the cloud.

• Through hands-on engineering you will help to shape and deliver the goals and vision set out by your Site Reliability Engineering Manager (SREM).

• Contribute to the major optimisation and improvement themes within the team. Identifying opportunities to reduce operational overheads through observability and service automation.

• Improve reliability, quality and compliance of services deployed within AWS.

• Innovate within your team, initiative area and contribute within your technical domain.

• Estimate, scope and plan your work within an agile environment.

What we’re looking for

• Strong proficiency in Javascript with comprehensive knowledge of modern web application frameworks specifically React.js and Node.js

• Good knowledge of NPM package management

• Understanding of common Javascript testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha & Chai.

• Solid understanding of API authentication and authorisation mechanisms like OAuth.

• Knowledge using monitoring & logging tools like NewRelic or Logzio to troubleshoot problems in a distributed network of systems.

• Strong understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipeline management via Jenkins.

• Development experience within AWS.

• Keen interest in Site Reliability Engineering Practices.

• Experience in front-end architectural and design patterns.

• Able to effectively communicate and partner across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

• Strong knowledge to successfully identify, troubleshoot and pre-empt operational issues.

• Proactive approach to problem determination, identifying areas for improvement and system bottlenecks and driving things to completion.

• Strong communication skills with proven ability to challenge and motivate technical teams.