If you have Unix OS experience and you're seeking a new contract role in Stretford, we want to hear from you. Jonathan Lee Recruitment is helping a collaborative company recruit a Site Reliability Engineer, and the role comes with a contract rate of £33.91 per hour. Inside IR35, this contract is initially fr 43 weeks from start date.
In this Site Reliability Engineer role, you will form part of a collaborative, iterative, and agile process in a multi-disciplined team, helping deliver best-in-class digital solutions. You will work on real projects alongside experienced engineers and with constant opportunities to learn and build your new site reliability career.
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
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- Extensive experience in Unix OS and ideally recent experience in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash)
- Extensive experience of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes experience
- Strong experience of Site Reliability Engineering practices and principles
- 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)
Preferred:
- Experience of Software Engineering with Go, Java, JavaScript or another language
- Knowledge of Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues
- Experience operating bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native microservice applications
- Experience with database technologies such as MySQL or NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB)
Personal Profile
- 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
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