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Ocient Inc.

Site Reliability Engineer

Ocient Inc. The Village, Scotland, United Kingdom · £74K–£90K/yr

Software Development · 201-500 employees

3 d ago
Remote sre Mid (2-5 yrs) Full-time United Kingdom
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About the role

The Site Reliability Engineer will support the operations of hosted database services, ensuring high availability and performance. They will also design monitoring and alerting systems while automating deployment and configuration processes.

What they look for

Site Reliability Engineering Linux Bash Python Ansible Puppet Chef ELK Stack Prometheus Grafana Jenkins Git SQL Cloud Infrastructure Containerization Observability

Requirements

Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience in system administration within production environments. Proficiency in scripting languages, configuration management tools, and monitoring software is required.

Full description

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote (United Kingdom)

Hiring Manager: Service Delivery Engineering Manager

Estimated salary range: £74,000 to £90,000

  • The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Position Overview

Ocient is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for solving hard problems to help maintain and expand Ocient's "as a service" offering of its cutting-edge data warehouse.

Responsibilities

  • Support the design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and related services — including message queues and storage systems — ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency.
  • Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for all services to facilitate

observability and incident management.

  • Automate deployment and configuration Linux-based servers, including the OS and the

numerous applications that compose our hosted offerings.

  • Develop and maintain rigorous security practices to protect our applications and customer

data.

  • Assist with automation of testing pipelines for the Ocient DB and monitoring of test

infrastructure.

Ideal Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in system administration in production environments.
  • Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or other languages.
  • Experience with system and software monitoring and alerting tools, such as the ELK stack,
  • Graylog, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Dynatrace, or others.
  • Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
  • Experience with data archiving, backup and disaster recovery
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment experience with Jenkins, Gitlab CI or
  • others.
  • Experience with source control tools like Git.
  • Ability to work flexible hours and serve in on call rotations.

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:

  • Knowledge of OWASP principles for application security.
  • Experience with server / system virtualization and containerization technologies e.g.,
  • ProxMox, KVM, VMware.
  • Experience with SQL and Database Administration.
  • Experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure. (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with SSAE18 SOC2 Compliance.
  • Experience with networking administration, including VPN, proxy, DNS, and firewall

configuration.

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