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Ocient Inc.

Site Reliability Engineer at Ocient Inc. (United Kingdom / Europe)

Ocient Inc.· United Kingdom / Europe·

Role details

Work type
Remote
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer Location: Remote (United Kingdom) Hiring Manager: Service Delivery Engineering Manager Estimated salary range: £74,000 to £90,000

  • The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Position Overview Ocient is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for solving hard problems to help maintain and expand Ocient's "as a service" offering of its cutting-edge data warehouse.

Responsibilities

  • Support the design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and related services — including message queues and storage systems — ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency.
  • Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for all services to facilitate observability and incident management.
  • Automate deployment and configuration Linux-based servers, including the OS and the numerous applications that compose our hosted offerings.
  • Develop and maintain rigorous security practices to protect our applications and customer data.
  • Assist with automation of testing pipelines for the Ocient DB and monitoring of test infrastructure.

Ideal Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in system administration in production environments.
  • Holds, or has previously recently held, UK Security Clearance
  • Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or other languages.
  • Experience with system and software monitoring and alerting tools, such as the ELK stack,
  • Graylog, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Dynatrace, or others.
  • Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
  • Experience with data archiving, backup and disaster recovery
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment experience with Jenkins, Gitlab CI or
  • others.
  • Experience with source control tools like Git.
  • Ability to work flexible hours and serve in on call rotations.

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:

  • Knowledge of OWASP principles for application security.
  • Experience with server / system virtualization and containerization technologies e.g.,
  • ProxMox, KVM, VMware.
  • Experience with SQL and Database Administration.
  • Experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure. (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with SSAE18 SOC2 Compliance.
  • Experience with networking administration, including VPN, proxy, DNS, and firewall configuration.

Why work at Ocient Inc.

  • Culture: Craft-driven, autonomous, collaborative, inclusive, and ethical. “We are industry-leading experts … driven to deliver the best and brightest solutions.”
  • Work model: Remote-first – team distributed across 11 countries
  • Impact: Work on problems that protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy
  • Compensation: Sr. Software Engineer ~$172K/year; Software Engineer I ~$97K/year (LinkedIn data)
  • Perks: Carbon-neutral operations, LEED-certified data center, commitment to UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Rating: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (35 reviews) – culture and career score 4.2, work-life 4.1
  • Notable alumni destinations: Google, Amazon, MongoDB, Citadel Securities

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