Location: Belfast, NI, UK (Hybrid, in office 1 day a week)
Job Summary:
Join us as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), where you'll play a pivotal role in working with our customers and developers by providing expert guidance on cloud infrastructure best practices and streamlining build and deployment processes at scale. Your primary focus will be on designing, developing, and administering our cloud environments to ensure reliability and user-friendly experiences as we transition to platform engineering.
As a senior member of our SRE team, you'll cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and elevate developer experiences through the adoption of cutting-edge tools. Bring your technical prowess to mentor fellow team members, shape patterns, and establish best practices for managing infrastructure and deploying applications as code across diverse architectures.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate closely with support and software development teams to enhance velocity and ensure the quality of customer applications and services in our cloud environments.
• Solve complex problems through creativity and collaboration identifying best solutions for our platform.
• Define, promote, and uphold SRE best practices across our product portfolio.
• Work alongside Architects and product development teams to build reliable services.
• Lead automation initiatives, focusing on deployment, management, and observability of our services.
• Provide guidance and expertise on infrastructure usage to developers and other internal stakeholders.
• Contribute to engineering planning sessions, ensuring adherence to cloud architecture best practices.
• Define patterns and best practices for using IaC tools such as Terraform and Packer.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident management procedures.
Required Skills/Abilities:
• Strong scripting skills, preferably in Python and shell scripting.
• Ability to analyze emerging technologies and trends to guide technical decision-making for the team.
• Proven ability to learn, mentor, and work well in a team environment.
• Inquisitive and driven mindset, with a passion for solving complex problems.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline or 5-7 years’ of relevant professional experience.
• Proficiency in AWS (preferred) or GCP with 3 years of experience using Terraform.
• Experience in container orchestration, with 2+ years of proficiency in Kubernetes using Helm, and familiarity with Docker, ECS, and EKS.
• 2+ years of experience delivering software to the cloud with a full understanding of SDLC using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Linkerd or Istio is a plus.
• Experience of continuous deployment workflows with containers such as Flux or ArgoCD is a plus.
• Relevant certifications in cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, and container orchestration is a plus.
• Familiarity with modern authentication and authorization solutions is a plus.
• Exposure to tooling and principles in platform engineering and GitOps is a plus.
aPriori Offers:
A team environment where your experience is valued, your voice is heard, and the work that you do makes an impact for our customers and employees.
aPriori offers competitive compensation and unique benefits including pension match, private medical & dental, flexible time off, aPriori days, and more in a dynamic, growing, innovative environment!
About aPriori:
Founded in 2003, aPriori is disrupting the industry’s status quo with groundbreaking work helping manufacturers digitally transform their businesses. Through our unique, patented, intellectual property, we enable manufacturers to accelerate product design, and bring products to markets faster while providing visibility to the sustainability of their design and manufacturing choices. Our impact is profound - our customers save millions of dollars each year, accelerate time to market, all while creating a better world for future generations. Though we are an established software firm, through our continued growth, we have maintained the dynamic, collaborative nature of a start-up.
With a global presence, including North America, Europe, Asia, and India, we encourage an inclusive work environment and support employees’ growth through education, training, wellness, and other programs. As our greatest asset, employees’ contributions are acknowledged through monthly company-wide meetings, often with promotions and awards. We promote a positive work culture, employee-friendly policies, flexible work schedules, and an additional day off each quarter known as “aPriori Day”.
Interested in joining our team? We continue to build an organization highly talented, self-motivated individuals. Our unique environment empowers employees to bring their best selves each day, asking, “How can I do better?” and then exceeding expectations. We work together towards a common goal. We nurture and celebrate each other’s successes. Employees embrace opportunities to build new skills as well as step into leadership positions where they are supported and mentored by the Senior Leadership team to grow into impactful individual contributor roles or to effectively manage teams. Innovation, adaptability, and a desire to increase your value are essential. If you possess these qualities, we want to hear from you!
aPriori considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, domestic partner status, civil partnership, pregnancy, age, military veteran status, or disability.
UK candidates- GDPR Notice:https://www.apriori.com/privacy-policy/
US candidates- CCPA Notice: https://www.apriori.com/california-privacy-policy/
