Site Reliability Engineer

Wokingham, Berkshire
Pontoon

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Role: Site Reliability Engineer

Duration: 6 months (extension options)

Rate: £700 per day (Inside IR35, via Umbrella)

Location: Wokingham (Hybrid) 1 to 2 days a week in Office

My client is one of the world’s largest energy companies they have invested £150million to tackle fuel poverty and are working towards zero carbon network

Job role:

The right candidate will manage core production systems using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles within Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). We are looking for a someone with software development and/or DevOps experience to join the exciting new team. The role requires software development skills and IT operations experience. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team uses software engineering to automate IT operations tasks that would normally be performed by system administrators. A SRE spends no more than half their time performing manual IT operations and system administration tasks – analysing logs, performance tuning, applying patches, responding to incidents – and spends the rest of their time developing code to automate those tasks.

‘Must have’ Skills:

• Software Development Experience (a good understanding of Agile Software Development).
• Be willing to undertake SC clearance

‘Should have’ skills:

• Production support experience
• ITSM knowledge
• On-call support capacity
• Understand Cloud Native Concepts, incl. Containerization & Microservices Architecture.
• Experience of using OpenShift or other kubernetes based platforms – ideally in a DevOps or Administrative manner.
• SC Clearance

‘Desirable’ Skills:

• Site Reliability Engineering background
• Experience of using the OpenShift Admin Console.
• Experience of using GitOps
• Experience of creating and deploying new and updated Tekton Pipelines and Tekton Tasks to automate technical processes
• Experience in creating new dashboard in tools like Grafana and Kibana that can be used for issue resolution and/or prevention.
• Experience in using any of the following technologies: OpenShift/Kubernetes, Tekton, ArgoCD/GitOps, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Prometheus/Grafana, Istio, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Advanced Cluster Management, VmWare, Ceph/OpenShift Data Foundation/SDS,
• Software-Defined-Networking (SDN), HashiCorp Vault, Open-Policy-Agent, Artifactory, BitBucket)

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven’t heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.