Site Reliability Engineer

Description

Are you looking for a new opportunity in Site Reliability Engineering and to play a key role with a major public sector client?
ASA is working with a large public sector client and are currently looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to focus on the reliability of their Amazon Web Services based platform as a service. The role will ultimately be responsible for ensuring the reliability and resilience of the platform and applications that run on the platform whilst ensuring a durable focus on engineering.
In this role you will be responsible for:
· Gathering and analysing metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
· Partnering with development teams in order to improve services through rigorous testing and release producers
· Participating In system design consulting, platform management and capacity planning
· Using automation and uplifts to create sustainable systems and services
· Balancing feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
· Maintaining services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
· Working with Developers, Testers, Architects, Dev Ops and Sysops to incrementally and continuously improve the entire system
· Assist with fault resolution and maintain relationships with, manage and support third parties in providing infrastructure services.

To be successful in this role you will need:
· Strong Amazon Web services knowledge and a minimum of 3 years hands on experience
· Strong awareness of digital strategy, new ways of working and emerging technologies
· Experience in running root cause analysis on a large distributed system ensuring that failure is not repeated
· Excellent Linux/Unix system administration skills with a bias towards RedHat Enterprise Linux versions 7 and Cent OS
· Proficient in systems monitoring, capacity planning, business continuity, system support and failure diagnosis
· An understanding of software and infrastructure architecture including performance tuning applications, infrastructure and data bases
· Experience scaling system sustainability through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability, velocity and cost efficiency

This role offers a secure 6 month contract, with the potential to extend to the maximum of 23 months in 6 month periods, outside the scope of IR35 working 37 hours Monday to Friday for a large public sector client in The Central Belt

If you are looking for a new opportunity in the public sector and this role sounds right for you then please apply today with an updated copy of your CV.

ASA Recruitment is one of Scotland’s largest independent multi-sector recruitment agencies. We specialise in providing effective tailored solutions for permanent, contract and temporary employment requirements for our Clients and Candidates. We are members of the REC and are ISO certified.

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