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AWS Databases - Senior Lead SRE, Glasgow City
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Location: Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference:
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91
Posted:
03.03.2025
Job Description:
Job Summary
The AWS Database team is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join the team, which supports all AWS Databases currently available in JP Morgan. We are currently supporting a lot of AWS native DBs (RDS/Aurora/Neptune) as well as CockroachDB. As a member of the SRE team, you will be working on supporting existing products and further improving existing observability and telemetry. The SRE team is also working closely with each product Engineering team to further improve existing implementations.
Job Responsibilities:
* Design, code, test and deliver software to improve our existing systems by adopting DevOps culture.
* Troubleshoot and manage incidents, communicate with stakeholders at all levels, facilitate blameless post-mortems, and identify follow-up corrective and preventative actions to ensure permanent closure of incidents.
* Actively participate in the development life cycle, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational stability.
* Define, create, and track application analytics in support of better service level objectives.
* Ensure adherence to change management release processes, and accelerate automation of these processes.
* Run resiliency management planning, scheduling, and execution of disaster recovery tests & seek to automate these activities where possible.
* Cover on-call schedule when Production support is required outside of working hours.
* Participate in enhancing product observability and telemetry, support modernization.
* Brainstorm ideas to simplify and streamline infrastructure by closely working with infrastructure and SRE teams.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
* Knowledge of Python / Unix Shell scripting & SQL.
* Good understanding of development tools: source code control software, automated build, automated testing, and JIRA.
* Understanding of infrastructure as a code concept is desirable.
* Experience with build automation, test driven development, continuous integration, and delivery.
* Experience with Relational and non-Relational Databases.
* Previous SRE experience including knowledge about SLO/SLA/SLI and error budgets is advantageous.
* Experience working or familiarity with one public cloud (AWS, Google, or Azure).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:
* Experience in application and system configuration management of a large fleet (1000's of nodes under management) is advantageous.
* Experience in the use of declarative frameworks (Puppet or Terraform).
* Experience in at least one programming language (preferably Python) is advantageous.
* Expertise in leveraging APIs, and security, authentication, and data structures is advantageous.
* Expertise in software design using Domain Driven Design, SOLID or GRASP is advantageous.
* Exposure to Microservice architecture, REST API design/development is advantageous.
* Exposure to Docker/Kubernetes is advantageous.
* Knowledge of source code CI/CD integration is advantageous.
What’s in it for you?
Besides having pride in delivering value to our largest footprint database and delighting our customers, you will be part of a great team, helping our customers unlock the potential of a 'No DBA' model. As a team, we care about each other and how we too can embrace modernization. We focus on:
* Continued career advancement opportunities, including industry recognized certifications, such as AWS and CKAD.
* Exposure to strong mentorship and leadership examples.
* Professional and technical development programs.
* Opportunities to be a valuable member of a close-knit, collaborative, diverse team that encourages networking.
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