Site Reliability Engineer - SRE

About CFP Energy:

Our mission is to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy by providing innovative financial solutions to our clients.

We are not just any energy and sustainability group; we\’re a dynamic, award-winning powerhouse! At the forefront of environmental innovation, we provide cutting-edge solutions for large-scale energy consumers. We do everything from guiding small businesses to corporate giants on their journey to achieve net zero emissions to expertly managing risks and supplying vital power and gas resources. But wait, there\’s more! We\’re not content with excelling in our current ventures – we thrive on pioneering new businesses and seizing energy investment opportunities.

About the role:

We are looking for a highly capable and experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing tech team. As an SRE you will be a hands-on coach for the development teams maintaining and improving our solutions’ reliability. You will be part of our DevOps team but spend most of your time working closely with the engineering teams.

Our ideal candidate will be passionate about best practices within technology teams, fully supportive of what the group is doing, and who wishes to make a difference.

Responsibilities:

1. Work with the development teams to build robust and reliable applications on our Kubernetes clusters in Azure.

2. Drive alerting and monitoring solutions to provide teams with better optics of the live application ecosystem, using tools such as DataDog, Grafana and PagerDuty.

3. Support product launches by ensuring operational readiness. Continuously improve our release practices and CI/CD pipelines.

4. Participate in on-call support and take the incident commander role when dealing with critical incidents.

5. Run postmortems and root cause analysis to unlock learnings from incidents.

6. Adhere to agile methodologies and Kanban processes and have a coaching mindset with the ability to understand and adapt to diverse cultures and hierarchies.

7. Drive innovation by discovering new technologies, reviewing tooling, and making suggestions on improving our current stack and architecture.

8. Drive the change you seek and be an autonomous, proactive, confident, credible, and persuasive team player.

Experience Required:

1. Expertise with monitoring and alerting platforms, such as ELK, DataDog, Grafana, Loki, etc. Solid understanding of monitoring and alerting best practices.

2. Previous experience as DevOps/Platform Engineer or SRE.

3. Expertise with IaC tooling (Terraform) and good understanding of cloud technologies, ideally Azure.

4. Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and Helm.

5. Fundamental understanding of GIT/version control and SDLC pipelines.

6. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with clients, team members, and stakeholders at all levels.

7. Object-oriented and non-object-oriented coding is highly advantageous.

Benefits:

1. 25 days annual leave in addition to Bank holidays.

2. Hybrid working pattern.

3. Discretionary bonus scheme.

4. Company pension scheme.

5. Life and medical insurance, and eyecare scheme.

6. Employee Assistance Program.

7. Cycle to work scheme.

8. Family-friendly policies.

9. Recruit and Reward scheme.

10. Access to perk-box benefits package.

Join us in our mission to protect and secure critical infrastructure in an increasingly connected world. If you are a strategic thinker, a natural leader, and passionate about cybersecurity, we want to hear from you!

The CFP Group is committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity and respect, and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all employees/contractors and job applicants.

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