Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes)

• Fourth is actively seeking an experienced and pragmatic Principal SRE to join our worldwide team
• We are progressing rapidly in developing automated, highly reliable, and zero-downtime infrastructure pipelines that are becoming the standard across our entire business – but now we want to accelerate this adoption and our move to public cloud (Azure)
• Working with Architecture, Product Owners and development teams to elicit and define the practical needs and requirements for products being migrated to cloud
• Design and implement scalable, highly available, and resilient infrastructure solutions to agreed standards
• Innovate and enhance tooling for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and automation
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure and processes, ensuring compliance with industry standards
• Actively participate in incident management, driving rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Identify and implement strategies to future-proof infrastructure for growth and increased demand
• You will actively use AI tools to the best advantage as a force multiplier and encourage others to do the same as appropriate
• Assist in the career development of colleagues, acting as a role model and encouraging best practice

Benefits

• Refer a Friend Bonus
• Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Charity Days
• Paid Time Off
• Birthday Off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Medical Care Insurance
• Corporate Discounts
• Corporate and Team-building Events
• Health and Wellbeing Initiatives
• Retirement Plans

• You will exhibit both strategic and tactical sensibilities. You are adept at mapping the bigger picture into smaller, yet valuable and achievable chunks. You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, allowing you to work effectively with our worldwide development teams and SRE community to select the right patterns and practices. You understand the importance of standardisation of technology and practices and have experience of implementing these in a consistent and low-maintenance fashion. You believe useful and relevant documentation is an essential output of your work
• Extensive cloud experience (ideally Azure and AWS)
• Experience of working in Agile or Kanban
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Relevant and recent experience with our main tech stack: Terraform, Configuration Management (Chef ideally, but will consider Ansible or Puppet), Kubernetes (cloud based), Docker (Kubernetes or AWS ECS Fargate)
• Demonstrable experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role, with experience mentoring others
• A natural and positive team player
• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and managing large-scale, highly available, and scalable infrastructure
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• Programming, scripting skills and OOP principles in general
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills