Site Reliability Engineer
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Summary
Site Reliability Engineer maintaining and expanding Ocient's hosted 'as a service' data warehouse: designing monitoring/alerting, automating Linux server deployment and config, and keeping the hosted database and related services secure and highly available. Remote within the UK, £74k–£90k.
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote (United Kingdom)
Hiring Manager: Service Delivery Engineering Manager
Estimated salary range: £74,000 to £90,000
• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
Position Overview
Ocient is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for solving hard problems to help maintain and expand Ocient's "as a service" offering of its cutting-edge data warehouse.
Responsibilities
- Support the design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and related services — including message queues and storage systems — ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency.
- Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for all services to facilitate
observability and incident management.
- Automate deployment and configuration Linux-based servers, including the OS and the
numerous applications that compose our hosted offerings.
- Develop and maintain rigorous security practices to protect our applications and customer
data.
- Assist with automation of testing pipelines for the Ocient DB and monitoring of test
infrastructure.
Ideal Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in system administration in production environments.
- Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or other languages.
- Experience with system and software monitoring and alerting tools, such as the ELK stack,
- Graylog, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Dynatrace, or others.
- Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Experience with data archiving, backup and disaster recovery
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment experience with Jenkins, Gitlab CI or
- others.
- Experience with source control tools like Git.
- Ability to work flexible hours and serve in on call rotations.
An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:
- Knowledge of OWASP principles for application security.
- Experience with server / system virtualization and containerization technologies e.g.,
- ProxMox, KVM, VMware.
- Experience with SQL and Database Administration.
- Experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure. (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with SSAE18 SOC2 Compliance.
- Experience with networking administration, including VPN, proxy, DNS, and firewall
configuration.