SRE Cloud Engineer

London 11 days agoContractor External
Negotiable
SC Cleared Cloud Engineer 6 Months Contract Remote Outside ir35 As a Site Reliability Engineer you will: ● Be part of a multidisciplinary team developing and supporting our central cloud, developer and identity and access platforms ● Write infrastructure as code using terraform to ensure our infrastructure is consistent, reusable and reliable ● Deploy and configure observability tools to enable our teams to identify and respond to operational issues quickly and effectively ● Build CI/CD pipelines to enable the team to get code into production quickly and reliably ● Provide day-to-day support for our platforms and tools to ensure they remain available, secure and robust • Solve complex and interesting problems • Share your knowledge and expertise with your peers and the wider team to drive consistency and develop a culture of openness and learning We’re interested in people who have: ● A deep understanding of Linux operating system internals and are comfortable working with Linux virtual machines or containers to carry out end to end debugging ● Strong experience of working with infrastructure technologies such as databases, web servers, DNS, CDNs, reverse proxies, message queues and load balancers ● Experience of building and maintaining services in the cloud (preferably AWS) ● Extensive experience of creating infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation (preferably Terraform) ● Experience of using container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS or serverless application design with AWS Lambda • Experience supporting large production services • Proficiency in at least one programming language (we use Ruby and Python) • Strong Git skills • Experience of creating pipelines in a CI/CD tool like Github Actions or AWS Codepipeline ● A strong understanding of security principles and how to keep large operational services secure