N Consulting Global
Site Reliability Engineer
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Role: Site Reliability Engineer
Experiences: 10+ years
Location: Hove, UK
Work Mode: Hybrid (twice a month on-site)
About the Role
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a pivotal role in driving IT operations modernization by implementing observability practices and automating repetitive tasks (toil). This position demands deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, modern observability tools, and automation techniques to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency across IT systems.
Ideal candidates are strategic thinkers with hands-on experience who can lead modernization efforts while fostering a culture of reliability and innovation.
Primary Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Product Engineering team to implement strategies for modernizing IT operations, enhancing observability, and reducing toil.
- Architect and deploy observability platforms to monitor system health, performance, and reliability effectively.
- Propose and drive strategies for AI-driven alerting and proactive anomaly detection, reducing Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets.
- Establish and create an AIOPS roadmap for improving operational efficiency.
- Lead efforts to automate repetitive tasks (toil) using scripting, orchestration tools, and AI/ML-based solutions.
- Drive toil automation initiatives, including automated incident responses and self-healing automation, aiming for autonomous operations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and maintainable.
- Drive incident management and root cause analysis processes through automation, enabling continuous improvement for autonomous operations.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, and product teams to implement shift-left engineering practices, ensuring reliability by design.
- Mentor and guide teams in adopting SRE principles and tools.
- Advocate for a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement across the organization.
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Key Skills & Requirements
- Strong expertise in implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
- Advanced knowledge of establishing observability using tools such as:
- Primary Skills: Dynatrace & Datadog
- Proficiency in automation & scripting using:
- Primary Skills: Python & Ansible
- Strong experience with cloud platforms:
- Primary Skills: AWS & Azure
- Solid understanding of containerization & orchestration, including:
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Proficiency in cloud-native distributed systems & microservices architecture.
- Exposure to AI/ML techniques for predictive analytics and automated problem resolution.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for enabling automated release & deployment engineering.
- Good-to-have: Experience with chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin or Chaos Monkey, and implementing automated resilience testing frameworks.
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills to colaborate effectively across teams.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and adaptability.
- Strategic mindset, balancing engineering excellence with business priorities.
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