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Site Reliability Engineer

  • Location:

    Edinburgh

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £50000 - £70000 per annum

  • Contact:

    Eve Fraser

  • Contact email:

    efraser@headresourcing.com

  • Job ref:

    BBBH34352_1601977366

  • Published:

    over 3 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2020-11-03

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

Site Reliability Engineer (Edinburgh £50,000+)
Head resourcing are looking for a number of platform site reliability engineers to take lead of ensuring their system is always operational and continue to make improvements on uptime and alerting.
The successful candidate will have experience in a very similar role and be looking for the challenge of an innovative business on the cusp of rapid expansion.
Our impressive, financially backed start up client who are building and implementing a low latency, high availability solution that can be used by a cross section of business partners across the world from their Edinburgh base.
With this product already implemented in a successful, Global and multi $ billion company with other opportunities in the pipeline, they are in a phase of growth to support the already incredible work undertaken by a small team in Central Edinburgh. This client doesn't believe in taking short cuts which will provide headaches in the future and so they have been carefully putting together a system that is sure to gain technical acclaim. With this in mind, they are only able to support the intake of highly technical and experienced people to the current small team

With a modern team, modern stack and high availability a requirement under high loads, the daily role includes technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Varnish, nginx, ELK while always with a primary focus on security.

Personal Traits
*You will be a self-starter who is proactive and keen to be involved and support the current team to ensure ongoing development coupled with out of hours support to fully embed the platform as they grow.
*Excellent attention to detail.
*Appreciation in the value of detailed documentation

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