Site Reliability Engineer

The Opportunity

The Rimes Technologies Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team is the very heart of the Technology Organization, its primary objectives to ensure that the Technology in use by Rimes customers is innovative, reliable, performant, scalable and secure. Delivering world class Customer experience for our both External and Internal users to the Rimes Corporation.

We operate a global follow-the-sun model, our teams are both passionate and committed to the demands of our customers ensuring that we are both innovative and proactive in delivering the technology and mission critical data within SLA. Rimes delivers its technology from both our own Datacentre and the Cloud.

We are currently recruiting for a Reliability Engineer to join our global Technology team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established firm with a global presence and significant growth potential.

What you will do:

• Participate with a team of Engineers in Reliability Engineering best practices’ e.g. Three pillars Reliability, Observability Recoverability.
• As SRE Engineer you will be at the forefront of Rimes engineering capabilities. You will participate in Incident Response and troubleshooting.
• Build new systems and implement innovative new technologies to support next generation Rimes platform.
• Participate in projects for new Infrastructure Services
• Optimize data center Infrastructure to improve performance, utilization, availability and security whilst controlling costs.
• Maintain observability best practices to measure compliance with Rimes SLO’s
• Implement efficient monitoring systems to measure performance and reliability of production systems.
• Reduce toil through automation to improve configuration accuracy and productivity.
• Drive innovation to drive adoption of new technologies.
• Participate in Capacity and Performance planning.

Who you are:

• Experience of supporting physical Datacentres Hardware O/S and physical networks
• Expertise with VMWare virtualisation Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server
• Expertise of Azure Cloud
• Expertise with Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server and Open source technologies Linux
• Expertise in SRE best practices e.g. Monitoring and alerting, Technical expertise to resolve production issues independently
• Experience in building production systems to support SaaS and Data delivery
• Experience in Software Engineering build release test and deploy methodology.
• Experience in highly automated infrastructure and utilising automation to deploy full environments as Code VM’s Containers and related infrastructure storage and networks
• Experience of Azure Cloud
• Excellent communication skills especially the ability to communicate across teams and to boss incidents
• Ability to understand code Python and Perl
• Competent at problem solving
• Understanding of DevOps tooling e.g. Ansible Terraform Jenkins Azure DevOps and GitHub