Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

The Opportunity

Are you interested in making a difference? To work for a tech-for-good company whose reason for being is to help all boards and leadership teams to be a powerful driver of performance and a force for good? Board Intelligence is on a mission to bring kindness and success together and to drive companies to think about what matters. We work with over 30,000 Chairs, CEOs, and board members to embed the discipline of focus into their organisations, and we’re helping a new board every day to focus on what matters. We are in it for the long term, come join us on this journey.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you’ll be joining a team whose mission is to ensure the availability, performance, security and reliability of our platform and core services, ensuring that they meet the needs of our internal and external users. You will take the lead on projects across the entire breadth of our tech stack, from planning all the way through to delivery and maintenance – you will bring others on the team with you on the journey too and not just go it alone. You will be responsible for visibility and monitoring of those systems, for building tooling and automation to reduce TOIL and for responding to incidents as part of our 24/7 SRE on-call team.

Key responsibilities of the role

We’re looking for a great Senior SRE to be a hands on individual contributor to key technical projects and to help us build a first-class SRE function. This role will involve:

• Hands on work with technical projects, taking direction from the team Principals
• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions / metric-driven alerting, logging and tracing
• Troubleshoot in complex environments
• Establish and measure SLIs and SLOs with engineering teams and continuously improve relationships and ways of working with other engineering teams
• Participate in periodic 24×7 paid on-call duties
• Holds, or is eligible to obtain HMG Security Clearance at the SC level
• Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications using infrastructure as code and automation (Terraform, Ansible, K8s, Helm, Go)
• Pair programming, knowledge sharing and running appropriate training sessions for the team
• Writing well-defined tickets (and supporting documentation when required) as well as keeping them up-to-date

What experience and skills might you have

We prefer to work with the best talent regardless of whether you are familiar with all of the tools that we use. We don’t need you to be familiar with everything on this list but experience in some or all of these areas will be useful and a willingness to dive in and learn the others, essential.

• A strong background in SRE/DevOps or Linux System Administration
• A strong background in system automation using configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef or Puppet.
• A solid understanding of containerisation and container orchestration using tools such as Kubernetes
• Experience with creation of automation using APIs
• Experience of automation testing in an Agile Software environment
• Close familiarity with some or all of:

• Network management and optimisation
• Postgresql Database management and optimisation
• With common security frameworks CIS, NIST, OWASP

Benefits

• Competitive salary & pension scheme
• Personal performance bonus
• 26 days holiday each calendar year
• Bupa health & dental cover
• Group life insurance
• EAP; AIG Smart Health and Bereavement Counselling & Probate Helpline
• Regular training & development, mini MBA series, lunch & learns
• Cycle to work scheme
• Competitive parental policies
• Gym membership discounts
• Monthly company socials

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