Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Technology

Fantastic opportunity available for a Senior/Lead SRE, this role is open to candidates based in Johannesburg or Cape Town

This is a brilliant opportunity to spearhead a team and establish the structure of a team etc

Main Responsibilities include:

  • Work closely with the Platform & Product engineering teams to ensure that the platform, infrastructure and services are designed and optimised for availability, latency and performance
  • Own and configure observability tooling
  • Create and tune alerts to ensure we have adequate warning of impending failures, and check alerts as they are raised
  • Investigate and resolve support issues escalated from the Tech Support team
  • Lead incident response, resolution, root cause investigation, retrospective writing up and follow-up actions so we can take every opportunity to learn, improve and make our services more resilient
  • Identify patterns in incoming incidents and document these for further investigation
  • Collaborate with other SREs and Tech Support to improve processes and share knowledge/best practice

Skills/Experience Required:

  • End-to-end delivery/ automation in a SRE, Platform or DevOps team
  • Agile development practices & legacy platforms
  • Engineering background, and is familiar with modern programming languages, ideally Python
  • Scripting for automation
  • Experienced in investigating and resolving technical issues, spanning performance, functionality and system interactions
  • GCP, AWS, Azure (ideally GCP)
  • Has strong experience and knowledge of observability, both in terms of best practices and tooling implementation/use (Datadog preferable, others will be accepted)
  • Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or alternatives
  • CI/CD Tools (preferably GitLab)
  • Database experience and ability to understand/write SQL (mySQL/MariaDB preferable)
  • Solid understanding of Linux Operating Systems (Debian preferable)
  • Has understanding of the DevSecOps culture and experience in delivering technical outcomes within this culture
  • Previous exp managing / mentoring a team
  • SAAS Environment exp

Sound like an opportunity for you? Get in touch with Caitlin on cbrown@welovesalt.com

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Job Information

Job Reference: JO-2411-348852
Salary:
Salary per: annum
Job Duration:
Job Start Date: 03/02/2025
Job Industries: Technology
Job Locations: South Africa
Job Types: Permanent

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