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Site Reliability Engineering Lead
Motion Applied · Woking, ENG, United Kingdom
Woking, ENG, United KingdomExp: 5+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Woking, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Motion Applied – Connected Intelligence (CI) is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead initiatives for creating and improving the CI 'Platform as a Service' (PaaS) offering. This role involves enabling product development teams to deliver software on immutable infrastructure, developing and facilitating production and development infrastructure and tooling, and integrating third-party managed services. The SRE will also lead the implementation of the CI cloud governance policy and participate in its maintenance.
Benefits
25 days annual leave plus bank holidaysEnhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and payFlexible working policies including Hybrid WorkingLife assurance to the value of 4 times base salaryOpportunity to join the Motion Applied Pension PlanCompany funded individual private healthcare with option to extend to familyElectric car scheme
Qualifications
- Experience working with delivery teams deploying software on the cloud
- Strategic technical leadership in Site Reliability Engineering
- Evidence of tailored and contextual communication
- Hands-on experience delivering production quality services
- Experience supporting live production systems
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with large cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
- Experience leading technical initiatives including roadmap input, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience working in and developing for a Linux environment
- Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in Go or Python
- Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and version control (Git)
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Experience troubleshooting incidents and live environments
- Ability to write and speak English fluently
- Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework (desirable)
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining multitenant and multi-region cloud infrastructure (desirable)
- Exposure to configuration management tools (Ansible, SaltStack) (desirable)
- Knowledge in cyber security (threat intelligence, IAM, key management, data security, application security, cryptography, certificate management) (desirable)
Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives to create and improve the CI 'Platform as a Service' (PaaS) offering
- Enable product development teams to deliver software products on immutable infrastructure
- Develop and facilitate production and development infrastructure and associated tooling
- Integrate third-party managed services for delivery and development lifecycles
- Lead implementation of the CI cloud governance policy for PaaS
- Participate in maintaining and updating the CI cloud governance policy
- Contribute to the Roadmap for the CI Platform
- Develop and maintain the CI Platform
- Collaborate and consult with software engineers and data scientists to design and implement robust and scalable software products
- Share knowledge and educate team members to foster a DevOps culture
- Proactively monitor costs and security posture of the CI Platform and products
- Define and implement tooling to improve software development, release, and maintenance processes
- Develop product features with product delivery teams, building upon the CI Platform offering
- Support live systems, including identifying and implementing improvements for reliability
- Design and implement infrastructure for multi-region and multi-tenant products and platforms
- Design and implement monitoring infrastructure for real-time data streams
- Design network and access for software engineers and data scientists to access AWS services securely
- Enable and collaborate with teams to automate product delivery
- Design and implement security and access management for AWS resources and IoT devices
- Identify root cause of live issues and implement improvements for future reliability
Skills
AnsibleAWSAzureConsulDockerGCPGitGoGrafanaIAMKubernetesLinuxOracle CloudPrometheusPythonSaltStackTerraformVault
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – ProfessionalAWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in similar technical field of study
Languages
GoPythonEnglish
Industry
Transport
Company size
Medium-sized
Relocation
No