Site Reliability Engineer – L4
Curve
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Working with Curve’s engineering teams to support the infrastructure they need and the platforms on which their services run
- Observing our platforms and services to measure reliability, find areas for improvement, and discover any risks to the stability or security of our systems
- Maintaining new and existing infrastructure with code, by writing well-designed Terraform modules, to make the best use of our cloud providers
- Doing proof-of-concepts on new and emerging tech to see how it could fit at Curve
- Taking part in honest and transparent blame-free post-mortems on incidents we have, so we can learn from them and prevent them from happening again
- Sharing your work and talking about it within the Platform and Engineering team, to spread knowledge and be an ambassador for good site reliability practices
- Deploying innovative new tools to help accelerate engineers and make their lives easier, giving them more time to focus on what they are building
- Documenting and driving the adoption of engineering best practices across the wider Engineering team
- Demonstrating ownership of all initiatives from concept to launch, and embodying unwavering commitment and reliability, with a genuine willingness to contribute and address challenges
- Helping Curve scale to many millions of customers and expand into multiple regions
- Architect our platforms to be secure and reliable to give our customers peace of mind
- Automate and accelerate - reduce manual tasks and allow all of Curve’s engineers to concentrate on building exciting new features
- Build, measure, learn - help us put together the best observability tools to continually improve Curve’s services and performance
Requirements
- Experience deploying production ready applications to a Kubernetes cluster
- 2+ years of experience with a cloud provider (AWS an advantage)
- Knowledge of defining infrastructure as code, ideally with Terraform
- Experienced with a modern programming language such as Go or Python
- Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)
- Experience of agile development practices and working in sprints
- Knowledge of designing PCI-compliant infrastructure will be a bonus
- Experience of working in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment will be an advantage
- Ability to write clear, concise documentation
- Keen to learn, and aware of changes in the software and cloud-native technologies industry.
Benefits
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- Bonus days off for Learning & Development, Mental Wellbeing, Birthday, Moving House & Christmas
- Working abroad policy (up to 60 calendar days per year)
- Bupa Health Insurance (YuLife)
- Life insurance powered by AIG (5x Annual Salary)
- Pension Scheme powered by “People’s Pension”
- EAP (Mental health & wellbeing support, Life coach, Career coach)
- 24/7 GP access (Smart Health via YuLife)
- Annual subscriptions to Meditopia & FIIT for your mind and body (via YuLife)
- Discounted shopping vouchers (via YuLife)
- Enhanced parental leave
- Ride to work scheme & Season ticket loan
- Electric car scheme
- Six nights of Night Nanny for new parents
- Free Curve subscription for you and your +1
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
TerraformKubernetesGoPythoninfrastructure as codecloud computingobservability toolsagile developmentproduction ready applicationsPCI compliance
Soft Skills
problem diagnosiscommunicationownershipcommitmentreliabilityknowledge sharingadaptabilitydocumentationcollaborationlearning orientation