Join a renowned automotive innovator in Manchester as a Site Reliability Engineer. This role focuses on AWS environments for cutting-edge projects, requiring expertise in cloud infrastructure, SRE practices, and software engineering. You'll collaborate closely with a dynamic team, mentoring peers and contributing to top-tier digital solutions. If you're passionate about quality coding and driving innovation in a supportive, global environment, apply now to advance your career in site reliability engineering with a leader in automotive technology.
Position Description:
The Role is for a SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER - this is specific working in an AWS environment in Manchester on the SDV programme. A Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for quality, and proven experience of cloud infrastructure, software engineering and SRE practices, is required for a variety of digital projects.
We are looking for a great engineer who has a passion for innovative problem solving, quality-first coding and SRE practices. Would you thrive in an exciting, dynamic and creative environment, but also enjoy the security, resources and influence of an established and successful organisation. Would you excel within a world-class and passionate team that loves what they do. Are you passionate about mentoring and sharing your skills with fellow engineers? You will form part of a collaborative, iterative and agile process in a multi-disciplined team helping deliver best in class digital solutions.
This role provides a unique opportunity to help support and grow the software engineering and SRE capability within. Reporting to the Chapter Lead and working closely with other multi-disciplined engineers, you will be a valued member of the team, consistently delivering to challenging business objectives, with a focus on testability, robustness, and performance for exciting new projects. You will work on real projects alongside experienced engineers and with constant opportunities to learn and build your new site reliability career
Skills Required:
- 4+ years experience in Unix OS and ideally recent experience in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash)
- 4+ years¿ experience of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes experience
- Strong experience of Site Reliability Engineering practices and principles
Key Responsibilities
- Software design and code development to internal standards and practises
- Guide and lead the development of parts of the software system Contribute to CICD and DevOps practises
- Support all agile development ceremonies
- Lead on Issue investigation and resolution
- Define and implement technical roadmaps for key areas of focus in the code base Implementation of all applicable testing for software Lead / Implement code reviews where appropriate
Experience Required:
- Strong experience in operational monitoring and dash-boarding for applications (ELK, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks (Docker, k8s)
- Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)
- Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques
- Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
- Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of engineers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills Collaborative skills - being open to pair programming and working closely with engineers in cross functional teams
- Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible Good automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools
- Experience of operating enterprise scale production systems alongside monitoring and telemetry practices (SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS)
Personal Profile Essential
- An individual with understanding and a passion for modern high-quality software engineering and DevOps practices
- An individual with a customer first mind-set who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.
- An individual who is results driven, demonstrates, tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment.
- An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results under pressure, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs
- An individual who is able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style
- An effective team player, actively supports and collaborates with other team members