Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Description For Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Dayshape, an award-winning software scale-up recognized as Scotland's fastest-growing tech company, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their expanding team. The role is crucial in scaling their AI-powered resource management platform used by Big Four and top professional services firms globally. As part of the Site Reliability Engineering BAU team, you'll be responsible for maintaining and improving the cloud infrastructure, implementing automation, and ensuring system reliability.
The position offers a blend of technical challenges and leadership opportunities, where you'll work with modern technologies including Azure, Python, Terraform, and various DevOps tools. You'll be instrumental in improving system observability, managing costs, and developing automated solutions to support the company's growth. The role includes participating in an on-call rotation and mentoring team members.
Dayshape offers an attractive compensation package starting between £55,000-£60,000, along with comprehensive benefits including private healthcare, generous holiday allowance, and professional development support. The company culture emphasizes work-life balance, professional growth, and innovation, with regular team social events and twice-yearly Innovation Weeks.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SRE professional who wants to make a significant impact in a fast-growing company. The role can be remote or hybrid, with their office based in Edinburgh. The company values diversity and equality, making it an inclusive workplace where different perspectives are welcomed and appreciated.
Responsibilities For Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- Maintain and improve management of cloud estate in Azure
- Improve scalability through automation and self-service tooling
- Improve observability through reporting and tool creation
- Drive improvements to Cost of Giving Service (COGS)
- Diagnose and manage escalated issues
- Carry out estate management tasks and deployments
- Support and mentor team members
- Participate in Out Of Hours on-call rota
- Drive improvements to incident management processes
Requirements For Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- Extensive experience as a site reliability engineer
- Experience working within an established SRE team
- Knowledge of infrastructure and application monitoring
- Experience with Azure DevOps pipeline management
- Strong collaboration skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Problem-solving mindset
- Ability to mentor junior team members
- Experience with Azure, Pulumi, Python, Powershell, YAML pipelines, Terraform
Benefits For Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- 33 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)
- £1,000 per year for professional development
- Paid four week sabbatical after 5 years
- Private healthcare through Vitality
- Income protection and death in service cover
- 5% matched pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Innovation Week twice a year
- Up to 20 hours volunteer time
- Team socials each month
