Senior SRE Infrastructure Engineer
Baringa
- Birmingham
- Permanent
- Full-time
We set out to build the world's most trusted consulting firm - creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.You'll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their businesses tick - slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.Baringa believe that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people, and creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture.What will you be doing?
- Build reliable tools and processes to make our engineers more productive and autonomous.
- Help our DevOps teams utilise their CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment standards.
- Take initiative for driving the optimisation of our cloud computing costs.
- Manage and drive the adoption of observability within the engineering teams (Service Level Indicators & Objectives), and best practices for monitoring various cloud services.
- Ensure key operational processes (on-call, incident, ORR, etc.) are continually improved, documented and communicated.
- Collaborate with Engineers, Security and Architecture teams to enable you to be successful.
- Spread a SRE culture within Baringa engineering teams.
- Work on escalated L3+ service desk tickets or incidents.
- Experience working in a cloud-native environment, using modern technology stacks.
- Proficient in Public Cloud platforms, such as AWS and Azure
- Experience with scripting, automation, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
- Experience with serverless compute technologies, containerised workloads and orchestration platforms.
- Exposure to working within an automation-heavy CloudOps environment.
- Experience with SRE methodologies such as monitoring, reliability, SLIs and SLOs, and toil management.
- Experience implementing, running and optimising modern Observability solutions (ideally Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/ELK or Datadog, NewRelic, Dynatrace etc)
- Promotion is solely based on your own performance, and we give you every opportunity to progress by having four promotional reviews a year
- We're proud to put people first with wellbeing at the forefront of our culture, one example of this is that every employee receives £300 a year to put towards their wellbeing! In 2022 this was recognised in our #1 ranking in the UK's Great Place To Work 'Best Workplaces for Wellbeing'.
- All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme, which seeks to ensure that everyone has a stake in the success of the company.
- We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break - As such we have introduced the 'Re-charge' benefit meaning Baringa will offer all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
- Lastly, we recognise the importance of work-life balance and we know that the 'ideal' balance will vary from person to person and will change at different stages of our working lives. If you require flexible working, please talk to one of our Recruiters about the flexibility you may need.
We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply.