Desired Skills and Experience
- Work closely with developers in supporting new features and services
- Build tools to monitor site stability and performance
- Help scale our AWS-based infrastructure (no racking servers or swapping hard drives here!)
- Work with our open source platform as a service, PaaSTA
- Troubleshoot site issues using industry-leading tools like Splunk and SignalFX
- Automate everything with Puppet, Git, Jenkins, and Terraform
- Develop custom tools when off-the-shelf solutions don’t work at our scale and contribute upstream to open source projects
- Design new systems, tests, and procedures
- Participate in light on-call rotations - we have geographically distributed SRE teams for follow-the-sun support, which means no 2:00 AM pages!
- Mastery of Linux (we use Ubuntu)
- Command of your favourite modern programming language: Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, C++, etc.
- Solid understanding of fundamental technologies like TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS
- Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery
- Experience with web server configuration (Apache/Nginx/HAproxy), monitoring, trending, network design, and high availability
- Strong scripting and automation skills
- Expertise in Configuration Management (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/etc.)
- Experience with public cloud platforms (we use AWS, but Azure/GCP are fine) and related tooling (Terraform, etc.)
- Experience with Docker or other container technologies
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Private health insurance
- Monthly fitness/gym subsidy
- Income protection, disability, and life insurance
- Generous paid maternity and paternity leave
- Flexible working hours and meeting-free Thursdays
- Fully adjustable sit/standing desks
- Regular 2-day Hackathons and weekly learning groups, always with interesting topics
- Central London location, close to public transport and restaurants
- Quarterly team offsites