Site Reliability Engineer

The Role 

Our Site Reliability Engineers work closely with our Platform and Engineering teams to ensure our applications are designed and built with reliability and speed in mind as well as ensuring our application infrastructure is robust and scalable.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Capital on Tap you will be responsible for designing, building, and monitoring systems to maximise platforms uptime and efficiency for the best possible end-user experience. You are also tasked with identifying and resolving potential outages and performance issues before they become a problem.

Responsibilities

• Manage Azure services and resources, Cloudflare edge security, traffic management in code. 
• Create, manage and monitor development resources within Kubernetes clusters and Serverless (i.e. Function Apps, Automation Accounts) for Product Engineering Teams.
• Own Terraform / Ansible / Pulumi Infrastructure as Code for each Product Engineering team.
• Continuously identify opportunities for improvement in systems, processes, and technologies, and implement changes to improve the overall reliability and performance of the platforms.
• Improve monitoring to provide insights to uptime and availability, and work towards the agreed SLO.
• Work with the Product team to identify the company SLA and objectives for all core services/applications.
• Work with Platform Engineers to deliver end-to-end automated solutions and pipelines.
• Work with software developers and stakeholders to improve the user experience through pipeline management and infrastructure improvements.
• Proactively support Platform services and tooling (TeamCity, Octopus, Azure DevOps & more to come)
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions. Through solutions such as load testing, chaos engineering and improved deployment strategies. 
• Own and lead the troubleshooting of incidents that impact the customer experience.

About you

• Experience in managing public cloud processes
• Experience in Azure DevOps, Octopus and other CI/CD tools
• Experience in Powershell, Bash or other scripting languages
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience working with a cloud monitoring solution (advantageous to have DataDog) 
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker (advantageous)

What you'll get in return

🏥  Private Healthcare through Vitality

✈️  Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality

🎁  Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)

👛  Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme 4-7% match

🏖️  28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

📖  Annual Learning Budget

👪  Enhanced Parental Leave

🚲  Cycle to Work Scheme

🚂  Season Ticket Loan

💬  6 free therapy sessions per year

🐶  Dog Friendly Offices

 🍫  Free drinks and snacks in our Offices