Site Reliability Engineer – Windows in London

Site Reliability Engineer - Windows
London
Open Rate Inside IR35

The Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for delivering continuous improvement, automation and self-service offerings to operational teams across Bank EMEA and Securities International. You will be responsible for the reliability and efficiency of infrastructure through the delivery of common, repeatable tools and processes that greatly reduce the amount of toil operations must perform and act as a member of L3 Engineering team providing subject matter expertise and ultimate escalation

Primary:

* Develop software to make infrastructure services self-managing and self-service
* Deliver continuous service improvement by developing Infrastructure as Code
* Eliminate manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical tasks that are devoid from value
* Improve system performance, make effective use of resources, distribute load and reduce latency
* Identify SLO's (Service Level Objectives) to meet availability and latency objectives
* Develop pro-active monitoring solutions that alert on symptoms and not just on outages
* Perform detailed root cause analysis (RCA's) on incidents and outages to prevent future
* Partner with development teams to improve services via rigorous testing and release procedures
* Identify technical debt and partner with application teams to build remediation plans
* Develop standard operational procedures and produce effective documentation
* Analyse workloads and devise suitable cloud migration strategies where appropriate
* Ensure all project / investment workloads are delivered according to plans and budget defined
* Liaise with Infrastructure Control and IT Risk teams to satisfy internal and external audit requests
* Deputise for team lead when required to do so and act-up accordingly
* Identify cost saving and optimisation opportunities across the group
* Build strong working relationships across the organisation
* Adhere to the core values of the bank

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential:

* Exceptional skills in Microsoft Windows Server internals and related technologies
* Excellent skills in managing and maintaining Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP and Kerberos
* Extensive experience in hardware performance monitoring and tuning complex low latency systems.
* Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Principles and practices
* Exceptional knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Python and C#
* Fluent in Backup and Recovery processes and procedures
* Advanced knowledge of Clustering, High-Availability, Replication and Disaster Recovery techniques
* Ability to tune Network, Storage, Server and Virtualisation layers for optimal performance and reliability
* Excellent Performance Tuning skills, in-depth knowledge of system internals, performance counters and performance measurement and analysis tools.
* Ability to interpret and implement CIS security hardening recommendations in a controlled manner
* Acute awareness of Security and Auditing requirements in a regulated environment
* "Infrastructure as Code" Principles and practices.
* "Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD)" Principles and practices
* Git, Ansible, Terraform and TeamCity
* Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) and Jenkins

Highly Desirable:

* Experience on writing, managing plays/playbooks on AWX / Ansible Tower
* Advance working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker container orchestration
* Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase ASE, MongoDB and Snowflake
* IBM Tivoli / Netcool
* Nutanix HCI and VMWare ESX
* Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN's)
* RHEL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and related technologies
* Cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle
* Knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.