Senior Site Reliability Engineer - HDFWE015
Human Direct, Spain
Job Description
Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a part of our partner’s team!
Passion, excitement amp; global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a part of our partner’s team. At our partner, they’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. They use their own Advantage - the combination of their next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network, and vertical specific software, to help their clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.
What more does our partner need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who our partner is:
Our partner is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.
Today, they’ve digitized payments for more than 3,000 global clients across education, healthcare, travel amp; B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, they’re just getting started!
With over 950+ global teammates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 14 offices worldwide, our partner is looking for teammates to join the next stage of their journey as they continue to grow.
The Opportunity:
Our partner is looking for an experienced engineer to join the Site Reliability Engineering Team to help drive reliability, automation, and performance in their cloud-based infrastructure.
At our partner the SRE team is responsible for the lifecycle of production systems, working across multiple levels. Their team is embedded in the development teams enabling and empowering them to achieve full speed in shipping reliable and operable systems. They also work at a global scale driving initiatives to achieve production excellence.
- Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces with a focus on availability, latency, performance, and capacity.
- Be embedded on a development team helping them navigate production excellence and advocate for best practices.
- Engage and collaborate with other disciplines in the design, deployment, operation, and optimization of services.
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack and practice incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Be part of an on-call shift along with other disciplines to respond to incidents.
What’s next in our partner’s team?
- Pushing SRE practice to the next level
- Help development teams to migrate production systems to our new platform
- Migration of the data layer to managed services
- Keep pursuing full DevSecOps
Requirements
- Our partner is aiming to build a multidisciplinary and balanced team based on "t-shaped" individuals. As such they are looking for people comfortable with the idea of being or becoming a generalizing specialist.
- Software engineering is an important part of our partner’s work, they actively use and support many different platforms and languages. Experience with at least one programming language is needed, also experience with testing techniques such as TDD or BDD will be highly valued.
- Being familiar with the container ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, build systems and CI/CD tools is key to being successful in this role.
- You will need to be comfortable taking ownership of complex systems challenges and help uncover opportunities for improvement.
- At SRE they are enablers, they empower and encourage their fellow colleagues so you will need to have strong communication and collaboration skills, and most importantly, empathy.
Some technologies our partner uses:
These are some of the technologies that they use, but they are always learning, experimenting and open to change:
- Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Go, Node, Python
- AWS: EC2, ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, RDS, Kinesis, S3, ElasticSearch, DocumentDB
- Linux, Docker, Terraform, Make, Chef
- Gitlab, Jenkins
- Sentry, Sumologic, New Relic
Benefits
Our partner’s culture:
- Our partner is a global company, their engineering team is distributed across 3 continents and 4 different countries. Remote work is allowed.
- Our partner’s engineering practice is shaped around some of the concepts of Agile, Lean, and Extreme Programming. Each team has a high level of autonomy to organize themselves in the way they consider more appropriate to execute their mission.
- They actively engage in knowledge sharing by hosting internal cross-discipline events
- They are active in contributing to open source whenever possible
- They contribute to their local communities by hosting different events, Meetups, etc.