Job Summary:
Are you an experienced Site Reliability Engineer looking to join a team that prioritizes open communication, collaboration, and personal growth? At aPriori, we believe that upholding our core principles is key to our success. As a Sr. SRE, you will play a critical role in supporting our application developers by providing expert guidance on infrastructure usage. Additionally, you will be responsible for designing, developing and administering the cloud architecture to ensure reliability and ease of use for our Application and Core development teams. You will collaborate with developers as we work to build on our Platform Engineering roadmap. As a key member of our Platform Engineering team, you will drive a culture of continuous improvement and work to enhance the developer experience using industry-leading practices. You will act as a technical leader and guide other team members in the successful completion of technical initiatives, while also contributing to patterns, best practices, and strategies for continuous integration and deployment pipelines for a variety of architectures. Join us, and be a part of a team that values integrity, continuous learning, and meaningful outcomes.
Responsibilities:
• Work as a member of a software development team to build team capabilities that improve velocity and ensure quality of customer applications and services in aPriori’s Cloud.
• Solve complex operational problems through code
• Enhance the developer experience through Platform development using best-in-class tools to develop APIs for Infrastructure services.
• Define, evangelize, and maintain Platform Engineering best practices across aPriori products.
• Collaboratively participate with team members to identify areas for improvement and design solutions.
• Participate with Architects and product development teams to build reliable Internal Developer Platforms (IDP)
• Identifying and leading opportunities to improve automation for the company; scoping and building automation for deployment, management, and visibility of our services .
• Provide guidance and expertise for infrastructure usage to application developers
• Key to the role will be your ability to teach and mentor other engineers and establish strong relationships with our application development customers
• Contribute to cloud architecture; design, development, and administration to ensure reliability and ease of use for our development teams
• Contribute to and create the definition of patterns, best practices, and strategies for continuous integration and deployment pipeline
Required Skills/Abilities:
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) DevOps, Architect, Data, or Network Engineering certification is required.
• Proven ability to learn, mentor, and work well in a team environment
• Inquisitive and driven mindset, with a passion for solving complex problems and developing Platforms as a Product
• Ability to analyze emerging technologies and trends to guide technical decision making for the team.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline or 5-7 years’ relevant professional experience
• Demonstrated leadership of teams using modern technologies such as Terraform, Python, Jenkins, Git, and extensive GCP and AWS experience
• At least 3 years of experience in scripting or development languages, including expertise in Python, Ruby, JSON, Java, and Node.JS
• At least 3 years of experience in Cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and Google
• At least 3 years of experience in container orchestration and practices, including Kubernetes, DC/OS, and Docker Swarm
• At least 3 years of experience in container infrastructure automation tools, including Helm, Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet
• At least 2 years of experience in DevOps and Cloud Network engineering
• 3+ years of Cloud infrastructure experience
• 2+ years of experience in a Software Development role
• 2+ years of system administration experience .
aPriori Offers:
• Hybrid working (1-3 days a week in the Belfast office)
• Competitive compensation
• Unique benefits including generous pension, private medical & dental & vision, cycle-to- work scheme, flexible time off, aPriori days (4 additional days off per year), income protection and employee assistance program
• Employee engagement activities such as a summer event, Christmas party and volunteering day.
• A team environment where your experience is valued, your voice heard, and your work impacts our customers and employees.
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.
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