Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)

Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.

Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times. We are making a difference.

Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

Fastmarkets requires an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer with great DevOps and Stakeholder management skills. To complement an existing worldwide team, we're looking for someone to help us modernise our Azure cloud platforms to a cloud-native, containerised fully automated deployment pipeline. Reporting to the Head of SRE, the correct candidate will have extensive experience in modernising Azure platforms, excel in Infrastructure and code, as well as being comfortable in more traditional DevOps work.

This role will also include helping to form an agile culture, working with stakeholders to understand platform requirements and turning them into a best practice, performant, and secure platform. Being a senior role, it is expected you will help mentor and train other team members and help keep the great team moral already in place.

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and has a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly. This role is required as Fastmarkets are undertaking a fast-paced set of migrations with aggressive timescales. The correct candidate should be comfortable in assisting with the whole process of planning, through deployment and testing and support of the platforms.

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of Azure
• Advanced networking such as Azure Traffic Manager, Load balancers, DNS, Firewalls, NSGs
• Private endpoints
• Virtual Machine management
• Automation and orchestration
• Terraform
• Ansible
• GitHub
• Azure DevOps
• Azure monitoring including app insights
• Kubernetes
• Bash
• PowerShell
• Linux

Desirable

• SQL Managed Instance
• Service fabric
• Azure cyber security experience
• Azure Active directory experience
• Team City
• Octopus Deploy

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.