Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Thought Machine9 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Support product engineering teams in building fault-tolerant and scalable applications through design discussions, RFCs, and code reviews.
- Design and scope disaster recovery, backup, redundancy, and capacity-planning activities.
- Participate in a global on-call rotation and identify and fix bottlenecks in SaaS customer environments.
- Maintain production systems hosting Vault products.
- Define and design reliability-focused SaaS product features.
- Implement and regularly test disaster-recovery strategies.
- Maintain documentation, operational processes, and runbooks.
- Mentor team members and promote technical communities of practice.
Requirements
- Track record of delivering high-impact, scalable projects and initiatives.
- Current understanding of hosting and networking architecture design patterns.
- Ability to independently drive projects, delegate appropriately, and scale individual output.
- Strong experience using Python or Golang on a significantly sized project or initiative.
- Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems.
- Experience with automation or configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
- Expertise in database administration, networking, observability tools, or automation infrastructure.
- Extensive experience with GCP or AWS.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary, pension matching up to 5%, and life insurance worth three times annual salary.
- Six months of fully paid maternity leave, four weeks of fully paid paternity leave, and matched shared parental leave.
- 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
- Flexible working hours.
- Cycle-to-work scheme, electric car scheme, and season ticket loan.
- Learning materials and courses, subsidised sports and hobby clubs, and the latest technology equipment.
- Fresh fruit, cereals, snacks, smoothies, drinks, and a weekly food pop-up.
- Two charity days per year.
- Role based at Thought Machine’s London headquarters with flexible working hours.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Thought Machine
Thought Machine builds cloud-native core and payments platforms for banks, centered on Vault Core, a microservices, API-driven core banking system delivered in the cloud. It sells enterprise software and services to banks and financial institutions, with engineers embedding to implement and integrate systems. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global banking markets and focuses on replacing legacy core infrastructure.