Remote Sr. Software Engineer/SRE - Remote UK (6218)

itD is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer/SRE (Site Reliability Engineer). We are looking for a highly motivated Lead Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability team. You will lead the design, development and operation of large-scale, secure observability systems that make sure our services stay online and performant. We're a team of passionate software engineers that value quality and customer experience. Our team is based in the US and EMEA, and we embrace hybrid and remote work.

The opportunity is remote in the UK.

We provide comprehensive medical benefits, a 401k plan, paid holidays, and more. Please note that we are only considering direct W2 candidates at this time, as we are unable to offer sponsorship.

Internal Responsibilities:

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  Attend regular internal practice community meetings.

  
  


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  Collaborate with your itD practice team on industry thought leadership.

  
  


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  Complete client case studies and learning material (blogs, media material).

  
  


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  Build out material to contribute to the Digital Transformation practice.

  
  


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  Attend internal itD networking events (in person and virtual).

  
  


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  Work with leadership on career fast-track opportunities.

  
  

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineering for Observability
Work Location: UK (Remote)
Duration: 12 months
Working hours: 11am to 7pm (mostly)
Interviews: 2 Webex Video Rounds

The Meraki cloud supports millions of customer devices from 8 data centers around the world. Meraki’s customer base has grown by a factor of 2-3 every year, serving billions of HTTP requests per day globally. Our customers depend on our products to run their critical infrastructure of network switches, security appliances, wireless APs and security cameras.

As SREs at Meraki, we are responsible for building and growing the cloud that supports these customers and their networks. As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer on the Observability team you will lead the design, development and operation of large-scale, secure observability systems that make sure our services stay online and performant. We're a team of passionate software engineers that value quality and customer experience. Our team is based in the US and EMEA, and we embrace hybrid and remote work.

Examples of projects our team works on:
● Design, deploy and scale our Prometheus architecture to handle 100+ million active series and beyond.
● Deploy and operate large, high-performance ElasticSearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.
● Deploy and grow high-throughput data pipelines built on Kafka, handling hundreds of thousands of events per second.
● Design and build an alerting system that allows engineering teams to construct alerts from multiple data sources and alerting workflows.
● Write libraries and APIs that give engineers self-service access to our monitoring, logging, and other observability systems.
● Use Terraform to deploy public and private cloud infrastructure.

You are an ideal candidate if you:
● Have 5+ years experience designing, deploying and operating mid to large size distributed systems on VMs or bare metal machines running Linux (we run Debian and Ubuntu).
● Have 2+ years experience developing with languages like Ruby, Python, Go, Scala, or Bash.
● Are excited by the challenge of solving difficult problems in large distributed systems that deal with huge amounts of data.
● Want to work on a highly autonomous team that cares deeply about quality and customer experience.
● Are curious, learn fast and feel comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and systems to solve problems.
● Understand the value of observability and can work with other teams to help them better monitor their services.
● Are willing to be part of a production on-call rotation.
● Have direct experience with the following technologies (or similar): Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK) stack, Kafka, Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Graphite, Ansible, Terraform, Consul.
● Have strong experience in building out solitons based on Software engineering best practices.

Preferred Skills:

Enterprise and Tech Industry experience: Cisco, Meraki, Google, ServiceNow, Meta, etc.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field.

Company Description
About itD: We are part of a new generation of consulting and software development company that blends diversity, innovation, and integrity with real business results. Our structure rejects any strong hierarchy, empowering us to deliver excellent results. We are a woman- and minority-led firm. Every day, we challenge ourselves to be considerate, fair and to re-think what great outcomes mean for our customers. This permeates down to how we approach every interaction, on every project, for every client. You’ll thrive here if you are a dynamic self-starter, a difference-maker or someone who wants to deliver great results, without constraints.

The itD Digital Experience: Joining us means you’ll be part of our global community, you have a say about your own career journey, and you’ll get a chance to give back to causes that matter. You will experience working with Fortune 500 companies and high-performance teams across numerous industries. itD offers our employees excellent benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, 401K + matching, networking & career learning and development programs. We are growing and we want to see you grow! Visit https://itdtech.com/careers to learn more about what working at itD can mean for you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law. itD is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact us at recruiting@itdtech.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Additional Info
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