Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables energy and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human an ever-changing world companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. Thats why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth backed by over 50 years experience. Our team of over 2400 experts operating across 30 global locations are enabling customers decisions through real-time analytics consultancy events and thought leadership. Together we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Job Description
Wood Mackenzie has an exciting opportunity for aSenior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a dynamic global business to help drive change and innovation. We are looking for a skilled senior SRE professional to help us manage and support our products and services within the enterprise.
Role Purpose
The principal responsibility of this role is to provide operational expertise within the SRE team and work with the software engineering teams to design build release and maintain new and existing applications resources and platforms. This encompasses:
- Working in partnership with the business and the technology teams bringing awareness and insight of the different operational constraints / opportunities for projects targeting cloud-based or on-premises deployment.
- Design implementation and maintenance of cloud and on-prem resources and environments.
- Fostering a culture of radical candor in cross-functional groups strictly following SRE best practices within a devops organization.
- Ownership of advanced continuous integration/delivery toolset or the processes resources and platforms that use those tools.
- Proactive approach to ensuring service availability as well as detection and prevention of problems.
- Articulate technical and business concepts to different audiences and influence technical decisions with solid metrics collection and proof of concepts.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Pipeline Leadership: Lead design and implementation of efficient and scalable delivery pipelines. Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers QA and product managers to design develop implement and maintain advanced delivery pipelines for efficiency and scalability using tools like Jenkins TeamCity Octopus Deploy and GitHub Actions.
- Operational Strategy: Input into development and implementation of comprehensive operational strategies through identifying operational constraints and opportunities such as auto-scaling container orchestration and system resiliency.
- Innovative Solutions: Lead the implementation of advanced solutions to predict and mitigate potential issues. Continuous analysis of data to identify gaps trends and areas for improvement.
- Tooling Strategy: Spearhead the creation and maintenance of state-of-the-art tooling solutions including awareness of new industry trends and how to implement them.
- Continuous Improvement Champion: Lead continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentorship and Coaching: Provide mentorship to Levels 1 and 2 engineers.
- Incident Command: Act as an active primary incident lead during critical (P1 and P2) incidents.
- Documentation and Process Development: Ensure comprehensive documentation exists knowledge shares happen regularly and review of SRE processes/standards.
- Autonomous Operation: Proven ability to work independently with minimal oversight for the skills and requirements listed below.
- On-Call Rotation: Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation providing advanced support responding to system alerts and incidents to ensure continuous system availability and performance.
Qualifications
We understand every organization is different and professionals have their own unique history and experience so we dont expect to find a 100% match of candidate competencies in respect of the tech stack we use in Wood Mackenzie. We list our preferred technologies but if you have transferrable knowledge and you are willing to learn what you do not know we will consider your application.
Skill Requirements:
- Experience: Minimum of 4 years in SRE/DevOps roles.
- Agile Leadership: Extensive experience leading projects in an agile manner.
- Expert Cloud Skills: Deep AWS expertise (Solutions Architect Associate or equivalent knowledge) substantial Azure experience (Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 or equivalent knowledge).
- Linux Mastery: Advanced Linux system administration proficiency (Linux RHSA or equivalent knowledge).
- Automation and Innovation: Proven automation expertise (e.g. Ansible Salt Stack Rundeck and Jenkins) including tool design configuration and implementation.
- Mentorship and Growth: Mentor SRE Is and SRE IIs.
- Strategic Execution: Ability to execute strategic operational initiatives.
- Troubleshooting: Utilize tools such dig tcpdump grep nslookup vim less cat etc.
Additional Preferred Skills:
- Expert Cloud Management: Deep expertise in managing large-scale cloud environments.
- Advanced Container Orchestration: Advanced knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent knowledge).
- Sophisticated Scripting and Development: Advanced scripting (Python Bash or Powershell) and development skills (e.g. C# python applications javascript frameworks or php).
- Infrastructure as Code Mastery: Mastery of Terraform CloudFormation CDK or Pulumi.
- CI/CD Pipeline Leadership: Expertise in designing creating implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Comprehensive Monitoring and Logging: Advanced experience with designing building searching (troubleshooting) and maintaining tools like Prometheus Nagios Grafana ELK Stack Splunk App Insights and CloudWatch.
- In-depth Networking Skills: Functional networking knowledge around concepts such as AWS VPCs Azure vNets AWS Direct Connect Azure Express Route Routing Tables Network Security Groups Route 53 Resolvers and Cloud Load Balancers.
- Security Leadership: Strong understanding of security best practices and compliance frameworks (e.g. SOX SOC II NIST CIS) with demonstrated ability to work within them.
- Database Management: Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Enterprise SaaS applications: Management experience with SaaS applications such as Okta Jira and Confluence.
- Leadership and Mentorship: Cross-functional leadership of projects and ability to mentor less experienced team members.
- Strategic Vision Execution: Assisting with operational initiative execution.
- Collaboration Tools: Experience with Git GitHub and documentation platforms like Confluence.
Equal Opportunities
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Required Experience:
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