Junior Site Reliability Engineer

Junior Site Reliability Engineer - Bath / Hybrid - £35,000 - £45,000

A great opportunity for a Junior Site Reliability Engineer to join an organisation who will be transitioning towards a DevOps environment, and pick up relevant skills along the way.

The role will be joining a leading software house in central Bath, building and maintaining infrastructure for their SaaS products. They are in the process of investing heavily in their technical environment and are looking for an engineer who can help with new tech implementations.

Core responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining hosting infrastructure (ensuring availability of web, database and messaging systems)
• Managing servers (across development, test and production)
• Monitor respond to infrastructure events (such as availability and capacity management)
• Be proactive with infrastructure upgrades

Does this sound like you?

• Experience managing servers in the cloud
• Proactive, not reactive
• Production systems awareness
• Possibly a graduate with a placement year / some relevant experience, or someone working in a support / infrastructure position

The technical environment looks like this:

• AWS cloud infrastructure (AWS experience would be ideal but Azure / GCP also considered)
• Majority Windows / some Linux servers
• NginX, IIS, virtualisation, web services
• Active Directory / DNS / DHCP etc.
• MS SQL Server
• PowerShell

They will be moving towards working with Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform) and containerisation (Docker); they would either be looking for some previous experience or a desire to learn.

Some of the benefits you can expect include:

• Hybrid working (3 days remote, 2 days in central Bath)
• Private medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Annual performance reviews
• Bonus scheme
• 25 days holiday (increases with service) plus buy/sell options
• Generous pension scheme (employer up to 8%)
• Relocation assistance
• Budget for training and development