Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Dayshape's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team as we scale our award-winning enterprise software platform! Lead initiatives to enhance Dayshape's cloud platform scalability in Azure, improve SRE team workflows through automation, and increase knowledge sharing. You will maintain and improve our cloud estate, lead in making deployments more scalable, and improve observability through reporting and tool creation. This role requires significant Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience, proficiency in IaC toolsets (e.g., Pulumi or Terraform), and Python coding skills. Dayshape offers a competitive salary, professional development funds, generous holiday allowance, enhanced family leave, private healthcare, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• Have significant experience with “Infrastructure as Code”
• Delivered IaC frameworks that can be contributed to by other engineering teams
• An understanding of the patterns and practices required to deliver reliable, high-quality results, such as unit and integration testing, CI/CD etc
• Writing and debugging Python code
• One or more IaC toolset proficiency e.g. Pulumi or Terraform
• Designed and built infrastructure using Azure which takes into consideration: observability, alerting, uptime SLA's and SLO's and Azure DevOps pipelines
• Be able to collaborate well with both engineering teams and colleagues in customer-facing teams
• Be an excellent communicator both in written and verbal forms
• Have an enthusiasm for learning new technologies and how they can be best incorporated into our infrastructure
• Able to consider the broader impact of your design and coding decisions and those of others
• Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving tricky problems and tackling risks
• Keep a cool head in pressure situations, maintaining a problem-solving mindset, but also knowing when to escalate
• Keen to help guide more junior members of the team

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to enhance Dayshape’s ability to scale our cloud platform
• Maintain and improve our cloud estate in Azure
• Improve SRE and other teams’ working lives through automation of manual tasks
• Lead in making the deployment of Dayshape more scalable
• Increase our knowledge sharing of SRE across the organisation
• Improve the observability of Dayshape through reporting and tool creation
• Drive improvements to our Cost of Giving Service (COGS)
• Diagnose and triage escalated issues
• Support, mentor, and coach other members of the team

Preferred Qualifications

Work will include the following technologies: Azure, AzDevops, Terraform, Pulumi, Python, Powershell scripting, Yaml pipelines

Benefits

• Starting salary between £50,000 and £58,493, depending on experience
• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
• Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality
• Income protection and death in service cover
• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
• Innovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-project
• Weekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!
• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company