Job Description

We are recruiting for a suitably experienced Windows Server Site Reliability Engineer based on-site in London, Monday - Friday. This is an initial 6 Month Contract.

Site Reliability Engineering are responsible for delivering continuous improvement, automation and self-service offerings to operational teams across EMEA.

Windows Server - Site Reliability Engineer

Location: On-Site - London - Monday - Friday

Contract Length: 6 Months +

Day Rate: Negotiable Day Rate

The main purpose of the role:

Responsible for the reliability and efficiency of infrastructure through the delivery of common, repeatable tools and processes that greatly reduce the amount of toil operations must perform.

Key Skills:

Exceptional skills in Microsoft Windows Server internals and related technologies

Excellent skills in managing and maintaining Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP and Kerberos

Extensive experience in hardware performance monitoring and tuning complex low latency systems.

Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Principles and practices

Exceptional knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Python and C#

Fluent in Backup and Recovery processes and procedures

Advanced knowledge of Clustering, High-Availability, Replication and Disaster Recovery techniques

Ability to tune Network, Storage, Server and Virtualisation layers for optimal performance and reliability

Excellent Performance Tuning skills, in-depth knowledge of system internals, performance counters and performance measurement and analysis tools.

Ability to interpret and implement CIS security hardening recommendations in a controlled manner

Acute awareness of Security and Auditing requirements in a regulated environment

“Infrastructure as Code” Principles and practices.

“Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD)” Principles and practices

Git, Ansible, Terraform and TeamCity

Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) and Jenkins

Desirable Skills:

Experience on writing, managing plays/playbooks on AWX / Ansible Tower

Advance working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker container orchestration

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase ASE, MongoDB and Snowflake

IBM Tivoli / Netcool

Nutanix HCI and VMWare ESX

Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN’s)

RHEL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and related technologies

Cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle

Knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX

Dell EMC PowerStore (SAN) and Isilon (NAS)

Rubrik, EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

CyberArk

Splunk

Qualys

Cisco Tetration

ServiceNow

JIRA and Confluence