Site Reliability Engineer

Introduction
In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an SRE in IBM CIC you’ll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You’ll identify insights and tasks that can be automated.

You’ll have the opportunity to identify points of improvement in technical processes and propose new ways to do it through automation help our customer to resolve their pain points and through co-creation define solutions that allow improving the efficiency of their operations.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Design analyze and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• Participate in on-call rotation engage with product teams to fix production outages and carry forward action items to improve ongoing reliability.

• Develop effective tooling alerts and response to both identify and address reliability risks including automatic problem detection and mitigation.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience in managing core production systems using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Knowledge of ITSM and SDLC / Agile processes
• Operating system (Linux) configuration package management start-up and troubleshooting
• Coding infrastructure automation with Chef Ansible Terraform and GitLab CI/CD
• Infrastructure as code: use Terraform and GitLab CI/CD for automation containerize our environments (Kubernetes) and leverage cloud technologies.
• Experience in AWS management including EC2 Instances and Auto Scaling Groups RDS VPCs SQS Elasticsearch Service
• Experience managing with container orchestration technologies in production (eg: RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes)
• SQL experience
• Broad knowledge of transfer protocols including IBM MQ

As an equal opportunities’ employer we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However for you to be eligible for this role you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
RCHA / RCHE Linux Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Docker Certified Associate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator