Royal Society of Chemistry
Site Reliability Engineer
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Are you passionate about building reliable, scalable cloud services and solving complex operational challenges? We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our DevOps team and play a vital role in shaping the future of our technology platforms. You'll help ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the services that support our staff, websites, digital products, data services, and customer-facing platforms, enabling the Royal Society of Chemistry to deliver an excellent experience for users across the globe.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a significant data-focused project, where you will help design and deliver modern cloud solutions that support the transfer, processing, storage, and distribution of large-scale datasets. Working with product teams, data owners, and technical colleagues, you will help develop robust AWS-based architectures that enable secure and efficient movement of data, leveraging technologies such as Amazon S3, automated processing pipelines, and scalable distribution services. Your work will directly support the delivery of critical information and digital services to a wide range of audiences.
We're looking for a technically strong and customer-focused problem solver with experience designing and operating AWS cloud solutions at scale. You'll have a solid understanding of DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, configuration management, and process automation, alongside a passion for improving how services are delivered and supported. Most importantly, you'll enjoy working collaboratively with stakeholders to create reliable, secure, and efficient solutions that make a real impact.
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If you're excited by the challenge of combining cloud engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and large-scale data delivery in a purpose-driven organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
Day to day activities:
- Deliver reliable and efficient services by applying Site Reliability Engineering principles, including observability, automation, service level objectives, and continuous improvement.
- Reduce operational burden by automating manual work, reducing toil, improving self-service capabilities, and supporting continuous process improvement.
- Design, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability capabilities that support service health measurement, alerting, SLIs, and SLOs.
- Support secure and effective DevOps delivery by reviewing and validating tools, pipelines, infrastructure, platform services, and environment provisioning.
- Manage operational change effectively through service transitions, roll-outs, configuration changes, and decommissioning activity.
- Improve service resilience after incidents by investigating and resolving incidents, problems, risks, and reliability issues, and by contributing to blameless post-incident reviews that lead to prioritised corrective action.
Requirements:
- Demonstrable experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state management, CI/CD integration, code reviews, and multi-environment deployments.
- Experience designing and supporting large-scale data delivery solutions using AWS services such as S3, DataSync, Transfer Family, CloudFront, Direct Connect, and cross-account access patterns. Understanding of data transfer performance, throughput optimisation, storage lifecycle management, integrity validation, and customer-facing data delivery.
- Knowledge of DevOps concepts, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, configuration management, and process automation.
- Knowledge of software security vulnerabilities and mitigation.
- Ability to collaborate with product teams, data owners, and customers, providing clear technical advice and supporting successful delivery requirements.
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