Desired Skills and Experience

  • Improving the whole life-cycle of services - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as design reviews and capacity planning
  • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response
  • You have worked with at least one of AWS, GCP or Azure
  • You have experience of managing containers and Linux servers in a production environment
  • You can debug and troubleshoot problems across a distributed system
  • You exhibit a systematic problem-solving approach
  • You fundamentally will not accept doing things over and over by hand
  • You can communicate well with both engineers and other members of the business
  • You are comfortable coding in one or more of the following: Go, Ruby, Python or shell scripting
  • Working within a Continuous Delivery focused environment
  • Mentoring other engineers
  • Administering MySQL databases
  • Management of an Elasticsearch cluster

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