The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position operates within the Technology & Engineering department at Future. We provide the global digital infrastructure and support required to deliver a multitude of high traffic brand websites, ecommerce/content analysis systems, back-office services and advertising services. The Engineering team has recently become globally distributed and is providing new challenges and opportunities to our operating model. We frequently participate in hack-days, local meetups and larger conferences to ensure our skills are kept sharp and to work with different members of the team.
What you'll be doing...
As one of Future’s SRE's, you’ll be coordinating a globally distributed team to achieve highly resilient, cost effective, distributed service environments. You will be collaborating with our software development teams, key project stakeholders and vendors to ensure our technical delivery aligns with the business strategy.
You will ensure that all our services meet their availability objectives, and collaborate with the technology teams to build highly resilient services and workflows. An SRE role is similar to a DevOps Engineer role and emphasises our objective to maintain a robust and performant organisation from all aspects of its technical process from CI/CD patterns to routing traffic around failing regions.
This is a challenging role! You will be supporting our colleagues, ensuring services achieve their service level objectives (SLOs) whilst keeping pace with industry trends and acting as a spokesperson for their best practice and adoption. Some of your time will be spent on routine ‘Ops’ work such as managing on-call incidents, patching and security checks. When not working on operations tasks you will be working with the Technology teams to improve our service to meet SLO, improve service operability and delivering their product objectives.
Experience that will put you ahead of the curve...
To succeed in this role you will be a proficient software developer, with experience in networking, storage, containerisation, and Linux operating systems. This is a complex and ever-changing business so you will need to be able to attend to unfamiliar situations, logically identifying the key aspects to focus upon before working empirically to meet the objectives at hand.
Future’s operating infrastructure is very broad, requiring an equally broad set of skills to support. As part of the SRE team you are not expected to be an expert in all fields, but to recognise your own strengths and support the group.
Example of principal systems we desire awareness of includes;
What's in it for you…
We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience
And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year.
Internal job family level T6
The expected range for this role is £33,000 - £60,000
Who are we…
We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.
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Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future
We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness. Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.
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