Site Reliability Engineer - Linux/AWS

UCA Consulting
Manchester, United Kingdom
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Manchester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
Linux
DevOps
Amazon DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
Identity and Access Management
Reliability Engineering
Prometheus
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Grafana
Kubernetes
Functional Programming
Puppet
Terraform
Jenkins

Job description

In this role, you will be responsible for the availability, latency and performance of our customer's platforms.

You will work proactively to identify areas for improvement, implementing automation, DevOps tooling and observability to reduce the impact of failure, provide scale and improved cost efficiency.

You will triage monitoring events and service desk requests, following a well defined incident response process and provide guidance and expertise to customers in a clear, calm and concise manner.

Finally, you will work under the guidance and mentoring of our Solutions Architects to undertake cloud infrastructure and transformation projects in-line with Well-Architected principals.

Key tasks

  • Continually evaluate customer platforms and identify areas for improvement.
  • Build reliable and sustainable observability into our customer's environments.
  • Provide expertise and guidance to customers through service desk and phone.
  • Triage problems through an established incident response process.
  • Implement corrective and preventative measures in response to incidents.
  • Act as a mentor to new team members.
  • On-call duties.

Technologies AWS, Lambda, Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, Packer, Helm, Jenkins, Puppet, Grafana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Aurora, Kinesis, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, KMS, SSM, IAM.

Requirements

  • Solid Linux experience.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Ability to work on several work streams with excellent time management.
  • A positive, constructive approach with an emphasis on collaboration.
  • Enthusiastic and eager to learn new skills, technologies and gain industry recognised certifications.

About the company

UCA Consulting is a Construction Recruitment Agency, placing professional candidates in permanent, temporary and interim jobs. Our success of being one of the leaders in construction, engineering, IT recruitment agency can be related to our candidate selection procedure and eventually placing the right candidate for the right job. We specialise in Construction, IT, Engineering, Customer Service and Support sectors. We provide a comprehensive search and selection service to match your vacancy with the best candidates. Our honesty and integrity, combined with our enthusiasm for filling vacancies with exactly the right candidates, gives exceptional value for money to your organisation.

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