Remote Sr. Software Engineer/SRE - Remote UK (6218) in Burnley

itD is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer/SRE (Site Reliability Engineer). We are looking for a highly motivated Lead Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability team. You will lead the design, development and operation of large-scale, secure observability systems that ensure our services stay online and performant. We're a team of passionate software engineers that value quality and customer experience. Our team is based in the US and EMEA, and we embrace hybrid and remote work. The opportunity is remote in the UK.

We provide comprehensive medical benefits, a 401k plan, paid holidays, and more. Please note that we are only considering direct W2 candidates at this time, as we are unable to offer sponsorship.

Internal Responsibilities:

• Attend regular internal practice community meetings.
• Collaborate with your itD practice team on industry thought leadership.
• Complete client case studies and learning material (blogs, media material).
• Build out material to contribute to the Digital Transformation practice.
• Attend internal itD networking events (in person and virtual).
• Work with leadership on career fast-track opportunities.

Examples of projects our team works on:

• Design, deploy and scale our Prometheus architecture to handle 100+ million active series and beyond.
• Deploy and operate large, high-performance ElasticSearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.
• Deploy and grow high-throughput data pipelines built on Kafka, handling hundreds of thousands of events per second.
• Design and build an alerting system that allows engineering teams to construct alerts from multiple data sources and alerting workflows.
• Write libraries and APIs that give engineers self-service access to our monitoring, logging, and other observability systems.
• Use Terraform to deploy public and private cloud infrastructure.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• Have 5+ years experience designing, deploying and operating mid to large size distributed systems on VMs or bare metal machines running Linux (we run Debian and Ubuntu).
• Have 2+ years experience developing with languages like Ruby, Python, Go, Scala, or Bash.
• Are excited by the challenge of solving difficult problems in large distributed systems that deal with huge amounts of data.
• Want to work on a highly autonomous team that cares deeply about quality and customer experience.
• Are curious, learn fast and feel comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and systems to solve problems.
• Understand the value of observability and can work with other teams to help them better monitor their services.
• Are willing to be part of a production on-call rotation.
• Have direct experience with the following technologies (or similar): Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK) stack, Kafka, Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Graphite, Ansible, Terraform, Consul.
• Have strong experience in building out solutions based on Software engineering best practices.

Preferred Skills:

• Enterprise and Tech Industry experience: Cisco, Meraki, Google, ServiceNow, Meta, etc.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field.

Company Description:

About itD: We are part of a new generation of consulting and software development company that blends diversity, innovation, and integrity with real business results. Our structure rejects any strong hierarchy, empowering us to deliver excellent results. We are a woman- and minority-led firm. Every day, we challenge ourselves to be considerate, fair and to re-think what great outcomes mean for our customers. This permeates down to how we approach every interaction, on every project, for every client. You’ll thrive here if you are a dynamic self-starter, a difference-maker or someone who wants to deliver great results, without constraints.

The itD Digital Experience: Joining us means you’ll be part of our global community, you have a say about your own career journey, and you’ll get a chance to give back to causes that matter. You will experience working with Fortune 500 companies and high-performance teams across numerous industries. itD offers our employees excellent benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, 401K + matching, networking & career learning and development programs. We are growing and we want to see you grow!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law. itD is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact us and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Dynamic environment in a culture of respect, empowerment and recognition for a job well done, apply today!