Senior System Engineer

● You have a solid computer science grounding - backed by significant commercial software development experience. These enable you to quickly gain familiarity with complex software products/deployments and use that knowledge to help diagnose and reproduce issues efficiently;
● You have experience developing, operating and tuning Java applications;
● Performance testing and profiling of distributed systems;
● Familiarity with load-generating tools like Gatling, K6 and JMeter;
● Profiling Java application bottlenecks and tuning;
● Familiarity with observability / Application Performance Monitoring systems (e.g. New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
● RDBMS databases and query optimisation;
● You have extensively worked with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes);
● You have a strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with tooling such as Github Actions, Helm and ArgoCD;
● Solid Linux/Unix fundamentals and significant shell scripting experience;
● Solid understanding of networking and TCP/IP;
● You have a strong desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment where you have a lot of responsibilities and see the immediate impact of your efforts;
● You lead by example and take pride in delivering reliable solutions;
● You are flexible, balanced, and always striving for improvements;
● You love efficiency and find smart ways to automate tasks for you and your team;
● Needless to say, your communication skills are excellent, you’re extremely approachable and you build rapport and relationships quickly;
● You’ve written operation run-books and good-practice guides that have been adopted in production;
● Your organisational and prioritisation skills are excellent and you can quickly make sound judgement calls when assessing the urgency and criticality of issues found;
● You have an eye for quality and a general desire to improve continually. You will look at all opportunities for optimisation and drive those through with the support of your team and key stakeholders. You use data to support your recommendations;
● Willingness to be part of an out of office hours Support rota for a 3rd level support for our Level 1 & 2 customer support teams;
● Willingness to travel;

 

Experience with the following a considerable plus:
● Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation);
● Eventing/messaging frameworks such as JMS, Azure ServiceBus and Kafka;
● Chaos/Resilience test tools such as Chaos Tool Kit or Gremlin.