Site Reliability Engineer

Partnerize is on a mission to transform the way businesses grow with their partnership automation platform. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their Technical Operations team, responsible for building infrastructure, delivering projects, and ensuring system availability, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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