Position: Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Poland
Company: Valtech
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

The opportunity

We are looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Poland to join a big project from the UK. The client is a large global company with several digital retailers. It is the number one destination for shoppers who value flexible payment options. It receives over 2.2 million visits every day. The client is focused on modernizing its existing systems and platforms, utilizing a wider variety of modern, cloud-based technologies.

The Ideal Candidate

— A proven background in Reliability, covering Observability, Reliability and Performance.

— Commercial experience of observability, from data ingestion to alerting and issue resolution. Elastic highly desirable but AppDynamics, Datadog etc considered.

— Comfortable with logging frameworks, log manipulation and shipping.

— Capable of designing, testing and implementing resilience on new and existing AWS solutions.

— Performance testing a bonus but not a must have.

— Comfortable coding in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, NodeJS etc.

— Commercial experience of using AWS Services including EC2, ECS, Serverless (Lambda);

— You’ll know how to debug a complex, high availability production environments; Networking knowledge, load balancing, TCP/HTTP etc.;

— Comfortable with Linux operating systems and able to create and maintain shell scripts

— Demonstrable range of in-depth technical knowledge/experience of handling complex software and platform architectures;

— In-depth level of technical knowledge/experience in building cloud solutions that have security, reliability, scalability, high availability and concurrency built-in from the outset.

— Background and relevant current experience in a hands-on Observability/SRE/Platform Engineering role is needed;

— Knowledge of IaaS deployment tools such as Terraform;

— Competent in using source control, preferably Git based.

Optional

— Elastic Observability or OpenTelemetry experience

— Working knowledge of continuous integration systems such as Jenkins and GitLab;

— Elasticsearch internals experience a big plus.

— Performance Test experience.

— AWS Certification.

— Docker development experience is desirable.

The Role

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer you’ll be expected to:

— Develop and maintain Observability solutions using Elastic Observability and OpenTelemetry.

— Design, test and implement resilience on new and existing AWS solutions.

— Assist tribes with performance testing.

— Build and maintain solutions developed on AWS.

— Help the tribes enable observability features and develop solutions where none currently exist. Also document the process for future reference.

— Assist on the creation and maintenance of pipelines to manage the observability components;

— Monitor and reporting usage of our cloud solutions;

— Advise on the selection of the most appropriate technologies for the task;

— Ensure delivery pipeline for your IaaS code has optimal quality controls built-in to support testing, deployment, reporting and task management;

— Make a selection of appropriate quality controls to complete assigned tasks, including; code driven deployment; infrastructure deployment; automated testing; and effective operational monitoring,

alerting and incident responses;

— Supply appropriate information and analysis to support resolution of issues and incidents with the tribes Observability. As a consultant and as a binding part between developers and our clients you are expected to develop expertise both in technology and the means to communicate complex concepts and rationale to non-techies. We’ll encourage and support this with frequent opportunities to share ideas internally. We also have consultants who frequently deliver at regional, national and global conferences.