Description
Who Are We
In 2019, our founders were working as engineers solving complex cross domain problems in defence and security organisations. TwinStream was formed to consolidate their collective expertise and experience into one business, providing technical excellence and exceptional service to their clients. We have teams working both on-site with clients and remotely from home.
Day Rate: £500 - £600
Location: Hybrid working in Hereford with possible 24/7 call out when on rota
Security Clearance: Eligible for DV Clearance
About The Role
Our cross-domain services are used in high profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks.
Key Responsibilities Of The Site Reliability Engineer
- Collaborate with Software Engineers to improve reliability and performance in their subsystems
- Partner with System Administrators in automating toil and eliminating alerts
- Evolve observability and monitoring capabilities to identify and solve problems before they impact the business
- Support development environments to help us achieve our delivery and quality goals
- Research and evaluate technologies, tools and services to influence buy-vs-build decisions
- Develop expertise in diverse technical domains
- Expand your knowledge of the technical stacks used
Skills & Experience Required
Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar)
Experience working with Terraform
Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm)
Experience both using maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar)
Experience monitoring tools such InfluxDB Prometheus Grafana.
Event-driven integration MQ messaging RabbitMQ AMQP solution.
Good understanding relational databases SQL.
Linux command line administration shell scripting.
Working knowledge network security protocols.
Using developing maintaining cloud hosting services ideally AWS EC2 RDS S3 Lambda.
Desirable Skills
Industry experience writing well-tested code platform languages Java Go Python similar.
Knowledge cross domain principles technologies.
Working service management environment Practical applications observability patterns previous systems Creating monitoring system availability metrics using drive work reduces downtime.
Further Information
To meet security requirements certain clients industries serve job offer contingent upon successful completion security screening process At TwinStream take pride equal opportunity employer celebrate diversity committed fostering inclusive environment individuals valued respected welcome applications qualified candidates regardless race religion disability age sexual orientation gender