Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

 Published 2 months ago
    
 United Kingdom
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KnowBe4’s Site Reliability Engineers help ensure that our platforms are reliable, secure, scalable, and efficient. They work alongside other engineers in a fast-paced, agile development environment, and share solutions to advance the technologies running our systems, improve their safety and reliability, and make the complex distributed services that deliver our platforms easy to understand.

The ideal member of our team gets excited about new AWS service releases, stays up-to-date on industry trends and design patterns, and has excellent time-management and communication skills.

Some of the technologies we use:

  • Programming Languages - Python, Ruby, Rust
  • Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, AWS CDK
  • Source Code Management and CI/CD - GitLab, Snyk
  • Observability - DataDog, Airbrake
  • Containerized Workloads - Docker
  • Cloud-native infrastructure in AWS - ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, SNS/SQS, Transit Gateway, Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, S3, AppSync, API Gateway, and many more.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with other Site Reliability Engineers to build highly scalable and resilient applications and infrastructure in AWS
  • Maintain and improve extensible infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
  • Learn, maintain, and improve our existing deployment strategies
  • Deliver effective observability, monitoring, and alerting patterns for KnowBe4’s applications and infrastructure

Qualifications:

  • BS/MS/Ph.D. or equivalent plus 2 years experience
  • Training in secure coding practices (preferred)
  • Comfortable maintaining existing scripts in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Javascript).
  • Experience maintaining infrastructure in AWS
  • Experience maintaining workflows for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) - GitLab is preferred
  • Effective communication skills
  • Ability to easily adapt while working on competing projects
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly

Bonus points:

  • Confident writing in Python
  • AWS Cloud Certification(s) - Associate Level
  • Experience working for a public company
  • Open-source contributions or technical blog experience

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