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Software Engineer - Developer Platform & SRE
Visa · Basingstoke, ENG, United Kingdom
Basingstoke, ENG, United KingdomExp: 1-3 yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Basingstoke, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
This role supports a cloud development platform by ensuring its tools and infrastructure remain reliable, secure, available, and performant, while helping engineers focus on product development. Responsibilities include supporting GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, and Artifactory; maintaining CI/CD pipelines; building observability with metrics, logging, and tracing; responding to incidents and conducting root cause analysis; and automating recurring operational work.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
- Bachelor's degree in IT, CS or related field and-or 3+ Years Working Experience IT Operations and Delivery.
- Experience: 0,5- 3 years in SRE and-or DevTools support roles.
- Beginner level programming and-or scripting in 2 or more of the following: Python, Java, Go, PowerShell, JavaScript, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Chef, Cloud Formation.
- Basic understanding of YAML, JSON, HTML, XML.
- Hands on experience in Linux and -or Windows systems and good understanding of distributed computing environments.
- Experience with CI-CD tooling such as Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Azure DevOps in a large-scale environment
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, DynaTrace, Sentry, etc. in a large-scale environment
- Experience supporting relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.), including creating and running queries, managing performance and scaling
- Working in a Platform, SRE or Production Engineering group for high availability-critical platforms-applications
- Experience managing a distributed container platform including but not limited to deployment-release management, provisioning, capacity management, workload management
- Experience managing container infrastructure and supporting development transformation to a container first model.
- This role requires oncall support as the team provides 24-7 operational support.
- Proficiency in at least one DevTool (GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Jira, Artifactory, ).
- Strong understanding of CI-CD principles and pipelines.
- Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and containerization (Docker-Kubernetes).
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms.
- Proficiency in Python, Ansible, or similar languages.
- Strong problem-solving skills, systems thinking, self-starter, and a passion for reliability.
Responsibilities
- be the primary point of contact for developers using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, or Artifactory
- Troubleshoot and resolve tool-related issues promptly to minimize developer downtime.
- Maintain and optimize CI-CD pipelines and integrations for reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve workflows and automation.
- Design, implement, and maintain systems for high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Monitor and improve application reliability through proactive measures and incident response.
- Develop and maintain observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing).
- Participate in on-call rotations and drive root cause analysis for incidents.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify reliability risks and implement best practices.
- Document processes, troubleshooting guides, and reliability of playbooks.
- Advocate for automation and self-service solutions to reduce operational overhead.
Skills
AnsibleArgo CDArtifactoryAzureAzure DevOpsBitbucketChefDatadogDockerDynatraceGitHubGoGrafanaHelmJavaJavaScriptJenkinsJiraKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLNew RelicPostgreSQLPowerShellPrometheusPythonSentrySplunkTerraformWindowsCloudFormation
Degrees
Bachelor's degreeBachelor's degree in IT, CS or related field
Languages
PythonJavaGoPowerShellJavaScript
Work schedule
Oncall support24-7 operational supportAt least 3 days in office
Industry
Payments technology
Relocation
No