Description:
We’re looking for a mix of technical generalists, specialists, candidates that are new to IT or very experienced. For us, it's more about the person and the character than the role. We need people that will get excited about taking us to the next stage of our evolution helping us with their specific skills and experience but learning new ones along the way.
As an SRE at Partnerize, You Will:
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications
- Measure and optimise system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
- Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
- Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Work closely with development and tech teams ensuring technical Issues and projects are correctly managed.
- Deliver small and large technical projects in a prompt and timely manner.
- Act as an escalation for Support Incidents and assignments while maintaining a high level of quality
- Be responsible for continuous improvement, continuous delivery and continuous integration.
- Participate in the On-Call Rotation.
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Understanding of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Understanding of scripting languages (Python, Bash, PHP)
- Knowledge of platform or application automated deployment and configuration management (Ansible, Docker, terraform etc)
- An awareness of AWS and other cloud infrastructure services
- Linux system administration skills.
- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and solve issues independently.
- Self-learner, ability to document learning as experience is gained.
- Experience as part of a team supporting and maintaining an infrastructure.
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
- Ability to prioritise workload including occasional Incidents and Problem management
- Knowledge of and experience with the ITIL practices.
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- An interest in development, new technologies and innovation
- Supporting development teams into the refactoring of technical debt
- Kubernetes, docker and containers
- Experience with monitoring systems, e.g. Zabbix, Nagios etc.
- Experience of JIRA and Confluence
- Nginx or web server technologies
- Gluster or storage technologies
- Git and version control
- Elasticsearch technologies - especially Kibana
- Experience with Apache Kafka and Druid