Site Reliability Engineers - Contractor/Interim

Applications

Once you have applied we will screen your suitability for our interim roles or service contracts and will contact you to confirm that you have been added to our pool if successful.

We would welcome applications from the following:

• site reliability engineers who are looking for full time interim contracts 
• contractors who specialise in Site Reliability Engineering as a business service to clients
• site reliability engineers who are interested in flexible contracts 
• anyone else with a software development or engineering background who would be interested in working with us through our contracting route

We require Site Reliability Engineers to: 

• take responsibility for solving complex issues
• automate tasks, deployments, and tests by creating infrastructure as code, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce
• implement resilient, highly available systems
• share knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team
• act as a digital ambassador, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc
• participate in our in-house (2nd line)  support, and the out-of-hours support rota - you’ll be paid an allowance, and a further hourly payment, for any duties you perform when on call
• share knowledge among our teams, ensuring that your team is understood by others and understanding the working of the wider organisation

We’re interested in Site Reliability Engineers:

• are experienced with UNIX-like operating systems and technologies used for web applications, e.g Linux, databases, backups, CDNs
• can demonstrate a working knowledge of Python and PostgreSQL
• are experienced with AWS solutions including S3, SQS, SNS, Route53, Lambda and RDS
• are experienced in the use of orchestration tools such as Terraform, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes. Cloud Foundry knowledge preferable
• have experience managing digital certificates (public key infrastructure) and VPNs
• understand software and network design principles
• take a systematic approach to solving problems
• use testing to validate solutions
• understand agile environments and version control
• are familiar with web security
• understand network protocols, eg HTTPS, TLS etc
• have familiarity with working practices such as test driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery. Experience with Concourse CI preferable