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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