Remote Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• Arbor is seeking a proactive Site Reliability Engineer to join their SRE team and enhance platform resilience and performance.
• The role involves advising on site reliability aspects such as availability, scalability, observability, and capacity planning.
• Responsibilities include monitoring platform performance, collaborating with engineering teams to resolve performance issues, and improving observability through tools like DataDog or Prometheus.
• The engineer will ensure high availability and resilience of services, champion best practices, and conduct capacity assessments for future scaling needs.
• The position requires close collaboration with various teams to provide excellent service and embed SRE practices.
• The engineer will also be involved in incident response, troubleshooting, and maintaining documentation and playbooks.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have experience in performance monitoring and analysis.
• Capacity planning experience is essential.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation with relevant technologies is required.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform, is necessary.
• A solid understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions, such as AWS Aurora, is needed.
• Familiarity with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads is important.
• Experience with nginx or similar technologies is required.
• Candidates should be familiar with SRE processes and aware of DevOps principles.

Benefits:

• Arbor offers a chance to work with a passionate team where the impact of your work is visible daily.
• Employees benefit from a dedicated wellbeing team and initiatives like mindfulness and mental health training.
• The position includes 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays, with additional company-wide days off.
• Life Assurance is provided at 3x the annual salary.
• Comprehensive wellness benefits include a 24/7 virtual GP service and mental health support.
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa is included.
• A salary sacrifice Pension plan is provided by Scottish Widows.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave policies are in place.
• Employees have access to financial wellbeing coaching services.
• Flexible working arrangements are supported.
• There are opportunities for professional development and volunteering.
• The workplace is dog-friendly, promoting a positive work environment.