Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Thought Machine
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Alex DuffyThe Role
Thought Machine’s mission is a bold one – to run the world's most innovative banks with technology built for the modern age. What we are attempting is hard, and means we need great people, working together, to build great technology.
We have undergone rapid growth in the past few years – expanding our team to more than 500 individuals across five offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. We've raised more than $340m in funding, raising our valuation to $1bn – and we are working with some of the world’s most competitive banks including JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, Lloyds Banking Group, Curve and Atom bank.
At Thought Machine, we strive hard to create a fast-paced, supportive and fun working environment to enable the team to produce the best work in the industry. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture – highlighted by FT-backed Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech – as well as having the most generous employee share package in the industry. We've been named AltFi's B2B Fintech of the Year, placed in the FinTech50, and in the IDC list of top 100 Fintechs.
Site Reliability Engineers at Thought Machine take responsibility for deploying our software into production. As well as traditional DevOps roles, your focus will be on writing and maintaining software with the aim of automating the deployment processes.
DUTIES
- Supporting the engineering team in building highly fault-tolerant, scalable applications.
- Developing tools to ensure our services can scale and are highly available. We always try to manage our ops tasks with automation, by adopting open source tools or developing bespoke tools as required
- Being part of the 24x7 on-call rota, helping support and maintain production systems
- Day to day development support and monitoring of production server and network environments by developing and deploying logging and monitoring tools.
- Developing applications to increase code quality throughout our codebase.
- Supporting disaster recovery, backup, redundancy and capacity planning activities.
- Working with external users/clients on a variety of projects, ensuring their success in running our core product Vault
Requirements
Essential
- Strong background in Linux/Unix administration, e.g. Ubuntu, Debian
- A strong background in at least one of Go, Python or Java
- A strong background in one of the following: database administration, Kafka, observability tools (such as Prometheus or Zipkin) or infrastructure automation.
- Experience with AWS or GCP is essential
- Experience or knowledge of container orchestration tools, e.g. Kubernetes
Desirable
- Experience in supporting production systems
- Experience with automation/configuration management, e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible
- Client engagement experience as an SRE for high traffic, mission critical systems.
- Ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Pension plan (match up to 7%)
- Life Insurance- 3 times annual salary
- Excellent Maternity and Paternity leave
- Shared parental leave
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Private health insurance with Bupa for you and your family
- Health cash plan (including dental & optical)
- Flexible working hours
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Access to exceptional learning materials and courses
- Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
- All the latest tech you need
- Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
- Huge range of healthy (and not so healthy) snacks, smoothies, juice, tea, coffee, soft and alcoholic drinks on tap
- A talented & experienced team as your colleagues
- An environment where we encourage learning and progress
Thought Machine is committed to making a measurable positive impact on people's everyday lives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and value people who take a journey unique to them. We provide everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description.
No agencies please.