London, United Kingdom
SRE Application Engineer (SRE/App) is responsible for ensuring applications are deployed in a safe, consistent manner along with any middleware that is being used. As the owner of final deployment artifacts, the SRE/App is responsible for review and acceptance of any configuration change, putting top emphasis on performance and reliability aspects of application configuration. The SRE/App also provides expertise to Development Squads and Performance Engineers on performance/reliability configuration and observability and drives technical troubleshooting sessions if needed.
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Raising the risk in case apps are not configured or architected in a reliable and performant manner
2. Ensuring applications have correct coverage on observability metrics and traces
3. Ensuring the apps are being deployed in accordance with Azure and K8S best practices
4. Providing expertise on performance and reliability configuration of applications, middleware, and dependencies
5. Coordinating release process with the Dev Squads/Release Management team
6. Providing troubleshooting services upon request
7. Providing On-call support for all software products
QUALIFICATIONS
1. Master’s degree in computer science or software engineering or equivalent through experience in a related role
2. Experience (3+) as an SRE, L3 Support Engineer, or DevOps Engineer
3. Experience in Flux/ArgoCD with Helm and Customize
4. Experience with observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana/Loki, DataDog, ElasticSearch
5. Experience with performance tuning, scalability, reliability, and capacity planning on Azure and K8S services
6. Experience with SaaS in a B2B heavily regulated environment (telco, banking, pharma) using Kubernetes, Docker
7. Experience with building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitLab CI/GitHub Actions/Jenkins and GitOps toolkit
8. Mediocre experience in programming languages Python, Bash
9. Knowledge of data and metrics visualization tools (Kibana, Grafana) best practices
10. Excellent knowledge of English both spoken and written
11. Team player & technical autonomy
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