Site Reliability Engineer in UK

The job is remote from the UK, currently without VISA sponsorship

Job description:

• Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.
• Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio.
• Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack.
• Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.
• Understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems.
• Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.

Career Level - IC4

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps or SRE roles running large scale infrastructure, cloud or web services
• Proficiency with the following: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker
• Proficiency in language like Go, Python, Bash/Shell
• Familiarity with several of the following technologies: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud), CI/CD systems (BitBucket/TeamCity/GitLab), Proxies (Envoy, Ngnix)
• Understanding of Linux operating systems: Oracle Linux (Red Hat, CentOS)
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive
• Solid understanding of PKI, mTLS, SSL, SSH
• Experience with Agile Development (Scrum or Kanban)
• Experience with production operations and good practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise
• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments
• Experience running large scale customer-facing web services
• Experience using ticket tracking systems such as JIRA