Site Reliability Engineer - Graduate Considered

RedTech Recruitment
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
11 months ago
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Site Reliability Engineer - Graduate Considered
We are excited to be able to offer this Site Reliability Engineer role working for an industry-leading software company in Cambridge. This company has won several awards and is pioneering in their machine-learning technology. Founded 8 years ago, with a team of 150 brilliant engineers, they are already renowned as having game-changing technology within their industry, with exciting scope for expansion into further industries. This role is looking for a Graduate or experienced SRE professional to work within the SRE team responsible for incident response and issue resolution.
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £32,000 - £70,000 per annum + excellent benefits including private healthcare (could be more available for an experienced SRE)
Requirements for Site Reliability Engineer - Graduate Considered:

  • Excellent academics including 2.1 or 1st class honours degree from a leading international University in a STEM subject
  • A minimum of AAB at A-Level or international equivalent if applying at Graduate level
  • Any experience working an incident response or technical support environment would be beneficial (could be as intern/year in industry etc)
  • Brilliant communication skills - this role is a highly interactive role
  • Ideally, you will have knowledge of modern infrastructure and operational tooling within cloud-based architectures
  • It would be beneficial if you have an understanding of how web-based software applications are designed and function, utilising technologies like node.js, PostgreSQL, or Elasticsearch.
  • You enjoy a variety of work and love the idea of a role involving lots of problem solving identifying the root causes of issues.
  • Good logical reasoning
  • You are keen on pursuing a career in Site Reliability Engineering in the knowledge this role will not lead to a role in the R&D/Software teams
    Responsibilities for Site Reliability Engineer - Graduate Considered:
    Working within the SRE team you will be responsible for the architecture of a mission-critical cloud platform for an industry-leading software company. You will diagnose issues within complex systems, identify root causes of issues, and propose and implement structural improvements. On a daily basis, you will be working with a range of programming, cloud computing, configuration tools, database technologies such as AWS, Linux, Python, nodeJS, PostGresSQL, ansible and Elasticsearch
    What this offers:
  • Joining a company at the forefront of innovation who are well versed in training and developing STEM graduates
  • An exciting and varied tech stack
  • A wealth of career progression opportunities – this is an expanding company and opportunities are in abundance
    Applications:
    If you would like to apply for this unique opportunity, we would love to hear from you. Please send an up to date CV via the relevant link.
    We're committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments for your application or during the review process, please highlight this by emailing (if this email address has been removed by the job-board, full details for contact are available on our website).
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