Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy. Were a technology company focused on creating a smart sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone. Its a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better more sustainable future. What youll do Teach and support product teams on best practices for reliability implementation patterns and effective usage of our existing platforms Support product teams in improving the performance and availability of their systems Be hands-on in code and infrastructure to help product teams with reliability improvements Provide comprehensive feedback to the wider Platform group on improvements to be made to core infrastructure based on observations and first-hand experience in the code base Support the build-out of proof-of-concept requirements in product teams as needed to evolve application deployment architecture to align with business growth as well as enhance scalability and system resilience Collaborate with product teams to support the release of new features and services ensuring adherence to reliability and performance standards Guide product teams in designing systems for resilience and graceful failure under heavy load Assist application teams with post-incident tasks and follow-ups and contribute to the creation and review of post-mortem documentation Analyse incident metrics to identify trends and potential improvements communicating these insights to the product teams Help solve interesting and difficult problems. There’s a great opportunity for disruption in the global energy market What youll have Great communication skills working effectively with developers product managers and other business stakeholders to understand design and deliver impactful projects and reliability improvements Proficient using AWS; we use a lot of different AWS services and not just the standard few Strong Python skills; particularly with Django the Django ORM and Celery Good expertise in multiple of the following areas : PostgreSQL or a similar RDBMS particularly in Amazon RDS at scale Docker and Kubernetes; we use Amazon EKS in production Datadog or a similar logging / monitoring tool Messaging queues event-driven async processing or similar technologies - we use RabbitMQ Terraform or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool Experience with a Linux distribution Previous experience working in small highly-autonomous teams What will help Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer Experience working on SaaS platforms including engaging product teams to ensure up-skilling and knowledge sharing across teams Experience managing and supporting a large scale internet facing service Experience in responding to incidents and outages writing technical incident reports and organising incident retrospectives Experience working with very large relational databases Experience in using service level objectives to improve application performance A proactive innovative mindset Kraken is a certified Great Place to Work in France Germany Spain Japan and the UK we are one of the Best Workplaces on Glassdoor with a score of 4.7. 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By applying you acknowledge that youve read understood and consent to these terms Required Experience : Senior IC Key Skills Kubernetes,FMEA,Continuous Improvement,Elasticsearch,Go,Root cause Analysis,Maximo,CMMS,Maintenance,Mechanical Engineering,Manufacturing,Troubleshooting Employment Type : Full-Time Experience : years Vacancy : 1 #J-18808-Ljbffr