We are recruiting for a suitably experienced Windows Server Site Reliability Engineer.
This initial 6 month contract role based on-site in London - Monday - Friday.
Site Reliability Engineering are responsible for delivering continuous improvement, automation and self-service offerings to operational teams across EMEA.
If the following job description is of interest to you then please advise and forward your CV.
Thanks - Maurice
Windows Server - Site Reliability Engineer
Location: On-Site - London - Monday - Friday
Contract Length: 6 Months +
Day Rate: Negotiable Day Rate
The main purpose of the role:
Responsible for the reliability and efficiency of infrastructure through the delivery of common, repeatable tools and processes that greatly reduce the amount of toil operations must perform.
Key Skills:
Exceptional skills in Microsoft Windows Server internals and related technologies
Excellent skills in managing and maintaining Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP and Kerberos
Extensive experience in hardware performance monitoring and tuning complex low latency systems.
Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Principles and practices
Exceptional knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Python and C#
Fluent in Backup and Recovery processes and procedures
Advanced knowledge of Clustering, High-Availability, Replication and Disaster Recovery techniques
Ability to tune Network, Storage, Server and Virtualisation layers for optimal performance and reliability
Excellent Performance Tuning skills, in-depth knowledge of system internals, performance counters and performance measurement and analysis tools.
Ability to interpret and implement CIS security hardening recommendations in a controlled manner
Acute awareness of Security and Auditing requirements in a regulated environment
“Infrastructure as Code” Principles and practices.
“Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD)” Principles and practices
Git, Ansible, Terraform and TeamCity
Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) and Jenkins
Desirable Skills:
Experience on writing, managing plays/playbooks on AWX / Ansible Tower
Advance working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker container orchestration
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase ASE, MongoDB and Snowflake
IBM Tivoli / Netcool
Nutanix HCI and VMWare ESX
Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN’s)
RHEL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and related technologies
Cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle
Knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX
Dell EMC PowerStore (SAN) and Isilon (NAS)
Rubrik, EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
CyberArk
Splunk
Qualys
Cisco Tetration
ServiceNow
JIRA and Confluence