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Site Reliability Engineer
Thought Machine
Greater London, UAE
Full Time
Senior
3 weeks ago
KubernetesTerraformPythonGolangJavaAWS
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About the Role
Thought Machine is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to run and maintain production infrastructure for core banking and payments platforms. You will support product engineering, participate in on-call rotation, and implement disaster recovery strategies.
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Responsibilities
- Support product engineering teams in building highly fault tolerant, scalable applications by participating in design discussions, RFCs and code reviews
- Contribute to execution of department strategies such as implementing disaster recovery, backup, redundancy, and capacity planning
- Participate in a global on call rotation responsible for identifying and fixing bottlenecks in SaaS customer environments
- Regular maintenance of production systems that host Vault products
- Contribute to evolution of SaaS products by building features that foster exceptional reliability and user experience
- Implement and test DR strategies to ensure highest level of resilience and fault tolerance
- Maintain high quality written documentation of assets, processes and runbooks
Requirements
- Experience successfully delivering engineering tasks and projects with a focus on reliability and scalability
- Good understanding of design patterns relevant to hosting and networking architectures
- Strong background working in either Python, Golang or Java, having used one to build production level software
- Experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems
- Experience with automation/configuration management, e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible
- Good understanding of one or more of: Database Administration, Networking, Observability Tools (Prometheus, Jaeger) or automation infrastructure
- Solid experience working with either GCP or AWS
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About Thought Machine
- Thought Machine's mission is to rid the world's banks of legacy technology.
- We have grown to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Lisbon.
- We have raised more than £500m in funding from investors including Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures.
As an SRE at Thought Machine, you will be responsible for
- Supporting the product engineering teams in building highly fault tolerant, scalable applications by participating in design discussions, engaging in RFCs and code reviews.
- Contributing to the execution of department strategies such as implementing disaster recovery, backup, redundancy, and capacity planning activities.
- Participating in a global on call rotation responsible for identifying and fixing bottlenecks in SaaS customer environments.
- Regular maintenance of production systems that host Vault products.
- Contributing to the evolution of our SaaS products by building features that foster exceptional reliability and an unparalleled user experience.
- Implementing and testing DR strategies to ensure the highest level of resilience and fault tolerance of the platform.
- Maintaining high quality written documentation of assets, processes and runbooks that are used by the team in their day to day operations.
- Collaborating effectively with team members, actively participating in knowledge sharing, and continuously growing your own technical understanding of Vault Products.
What we’re looking for
- You have experience successfully delivering engineering tasks and projects with a focus on reliability and scalability.
- You possess a good understanding of design patterns relevant to hosting and networking architectures.
- You proactively champion product development, driven by a desire to build truly exceptional products, not just solve immediate challenges.
- You have a strong background working in either Python, Golang or Java, having used one of these programming languages to build production level software.
- You have experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems.
- You have experience with automation/configuration management, e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible.
- You have a good understanding of one or more of the following areas: Database Administration, Networking, Observability Tools (such as Prometheus, Jaeger) or automation infrastructure.
- You have solid experience working with either GCP or AWS.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Pension plan (match up to 5%)
- Life insurance three times annual salary
- Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
- Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
- 25 days holiday and bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
- Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
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