Placement, Site Reliability Engineering SRE
Symphony Communication Services2 months ago
Belfast, United KingdomEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Assist with writing and maintaining automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code for deployment, scaling, and infrastructure management.
- Build, refine, and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerts using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
- Shadow SRE mentors during incident triage, assist with root cause analysis, and contribute to blameless post-mortems.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks, participate in stress testing, and identify single points of failure in cloud infrastructure.
- Support the maintenance and improvement of continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for reliable software releases.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Foundational programming skills in at least one modern language, such as Python, Go, Java, or Bash.
- Understanding of Linux basics, command-line interfaces, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, and RESTful APIs.
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills and curiosity about complex distributed systems.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
Benefits
- Hands-on experience in real-world SRE projects.
- Mentorship and guidance from experienced developers.
- Opportunities to expand technical skills and learn new technologies.
- Industry networking opportunities.
- Opportunity to develop understanding of Symphony’s products, services, and marketplace relevance.
- Nine-month placement with compensation of £14 per hour.
About Symphony Communication Services
Symphony Communication Services builds secure collaboration and workflow software for financial services, combining encrypted chat, trader voice, meetings, and bots with compliance, directory, and analytics. It sells subscriptions and enterprise deployments to banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, and market infrastructure firms, with integrations into trading and CRM systems. The company is privately held and expanded its voice offering by acquiring Cloud9 Technologies in 2021.