Software Reliability Engineer in London

We are seeking experienced, hands-on Software Reliability Engineers to act as evangelists for continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical DevOps and SRE role for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is roughly 70% coding and configuration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challenges getting to safe and rapid release cadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
• Wrap the application in a suite of well-designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests to be run as part of the deployment process.
• Sourcing and integrating appropriate test data, implementing data masking in lower environments.
• Upgrade to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
• Containerise applications where feasible.
• Upgrade open-source libraries to their latest available major versions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2).
• Upgrade to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images or operating system.
• Implement processes that allow us seamlessly to stay current.
• Implement continuous library updates using Renovate.
• Introduce best practice source control and branch management.
• Improve code review processes.
• Ensure best practice security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorisation.
• Simplify and automate application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
• Introduce standard observability patterns.
• Overhaul exception handling and logging.
• Implement resilient hot-hot cross-datacenter deployment topologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of the different approaches to automation testing and an ability to choose the best approach and drive outcomes with AI support.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Highest quality coding skills.
• An excellent understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architecture and observability.
• At home with multiple continuous integration and deployment systems.
• Excellent understanding of secure coding practices.
• Competent with Docker and Openshift.
• Actively embracing AI coding.
• Comfortable with build automation tools such as Gradle, Maven, and npm.
• Competent with (RedHat) Linux.
• Spring framework skills are advantageous.
• Ansible skills are advantageous.

Location & Work Environment:

• Hybrid work model.
• Collaborative, fast-paced, engineering-driven environment.
• Strong emphasis on hands-on engineering, technical autonomy, problem solving, and cross-team impact.

Join Our Global Team:

We invite you to apply for the position at RE Partners. Join us in shaping the future of business technology consulting and transforming the way organizations thrive in a digital world. As a diverse, woman-owned global business, we pride ourselves on keeping talent happy – our 7% attrition rate speaks volumes. Bring your talented friends along and earn a referral bonus.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.