Support the design and operations of hosted databases and related services to ensure high availability and performance. Automate server deployment and maintain monitoring, alerting, and security practices for observability and data protection.
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote (United Kingdom)
Hiring Manager: Service Delivery Engineering Manager
Estimated salary range: £74,000 to £90,000
• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
Position Overview
Ocient is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for solving hard problems to help maintain and expand Ocient's "as a service" offering of its cutting-edge data warehouse.
Responsibilities
Support the design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and related services — including message queues and storage systems — ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency.
Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for all services to facilitate
observability and incident management.
Automate deployment and configuration Linux-based servers, including the OS and the
numerous applications that compose our hosted offerings.
Develop and maintain rigorous security practices to protect our applications and customer
data.
Assist with automation of testing pipelines for the Ocient DB and monitoring of test
infrastructure.
Ideal Qualifications
3+ years of experience in system administration in production environments.
Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or other languages.
Experience with system and software monitoring and alerting tools, such as the ELK stack,
Graylog, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Dynatrace, or others.
Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
Experience with data archiving, backup and disaster recovery
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment experience with Jenkins, Gitlab CI or
others.
Experience with source control tools like Git.
Ability to work flexible hours and serve in on call rotations.
An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:
Knowledge of OWASP principles for application security.
Experience with server / system virtualization and containerization technologies e.g.,
ProxMox, KVM, VMware.
Experience with SQL and Database Administration.
Experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure. (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
Experience with SSAE18 SOC2 Compliance.
Experience with networking administration, including VPN, proxy, DNS, and firewall
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