Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Our mission is “From idea to production ready in under twelve minutes”. We do this by developing and providing a set of low-friction, fully managed cloud capabilities.
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Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Remote - Africa/EU
6 months (3 months to begin)
Who are we?
We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team.
We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™.
What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.
Want to know more? read: https://distributed.co/about
About this role
You will be working in the brand-new SRE squad within the 'Platforms' team. Our mission is “From idea to production ready in under twelve minutes”. We do this by developing and providing a set of low-friction, fully managed cloud capabilities that abstract complexities away from developers and product owners – allowing them to focus on code and business value and not infrastructure.
Your Responsibilities
- Build a platform, along with patterns, services, tools, frameworks, automations, APIs and capabilities across all our production stacks that safeguard and ensure the stability and reliability of our production environments with a security conscious mindset.
- Own governance of our production estate across Digital Enterprise
- Develop tooling that provides an AI-first approach to production environment upkeep including early detection of potential faults and remediation
- Lead incident resolution activities and the definition of “good” for playbooks and runbooks
- Establish a cadence of disaster recovery activities with development teams to ensure preparedness
- Lead, nurture and grow a team of engineers as we scale up to deliver on an ambitious program of work
- Design and develop tools that improve our continuous delivery mindset on AWS
- Collaborate ferociously within the organisation to meet your squad goals
About You
We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise & engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both.
- You will have hands-on experience taking requirements and designing, architecting and implementing reusable and robust solutions.
- 5+ years of experience with AWS. Bonus points for experience with Lambdas, API gateway, and other serverless technologies
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure with IAC tooling
- Strong experience with Typescript. Java and Spring Boot as well will be a distinct advantage
- 5+ years of experience in building software products
- 3+ years of experience working in an SRE capacity within AWS preferably a distinct advantage
- 3+ years of experience with agile systems development methodologies.
- Experience using and building CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with monitoring tools and solutions
- Experience building new monitoring pipelines and tooling a distinct advantage
- Experience with DevOps capabilities
- Strong communication and presentation skills
About us
Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.
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- Department
- Elastic Team
- Locations
- Fully Remote
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Contract
Workplace & culture
Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly.
The Company is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.
About Distributed
We are Distributed: we help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our on-demand Elastic Teams.
Last year alone Distributed won 5 awards including 2 awards for growth, most disruptive startup in Startups 100, Winner in the Deloitte Fast 50 UK, a winner in the Red Herring Europe Top 100, and winner of a global award for Outstanding Reward & Recognition for remote working from The Omnis.
This year BT Digital signed a £30m deal with Distributed to accelerate its digital transformation and innovation agenda by rapidly bringing together multi-skilled digital teams.
We do things differently, we move fast, we are recognised as leaders in our sector, and we look after our people. We are a people company that uses technology to deliver beyond client expectations.
Join us if you want to be part of our Elastic Team community that’s shaping the future of freelance working.
Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Our mission is “From idea to production ready in under twelve minutes”. We do this by developing and providing a set of low-friction, fully managed cloud capabilities.
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