Site Reliability Engineer

🚀 Site Reliability Engineer🚀

📍 Location: Brighton

💖 Department: Technology

📅 Position type: Full-time, hybrid

The role

As part of our Technology function, the Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for delivering features to the business safer and sooner. We use cutting edge techniques and technologies to automate previously manual processes. We use delivery and monitoring pipelines to maintain a self-healing system that can respond to incidents without bothering humans. We tie technology decisions directly to key goals for the business.

We are looking for someone with a passion for Devops and Cloud Engineering and the desire to utilise and develop their existing skills and experience. The importance of providing MPB with reliable, scalable and extensible deployment processes and environments is recognised as a critical element of our growth and continued success.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining automated processes, infrastructure, and ephemeral environments through use of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management. Working alongside your colleagues in SRE, P&E, and across the wider business to provide stable tooling and systems to support the development, deployment, monitoring, and running of features through to production

What you will be doing

• Support the provision of ephemeral feature environments to enable development and testing of features and changes.
• Support, develop, and maintain our automated pipelines
• Follow accepted engineering practices to ensure your changes are version controlled, tested, monitored, and released safely.
• Take responsibility for identifying and developing relevant skills on a continuous basis.
• Ensure the suitable security posture of our running infrastructure, applications, and any changes made to them.
• Implementation and support of Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Responding to, diagnosing and resolving production issues, in conjunction with other SMEs in the Product & Engineering team

What we are looking for

Essential

• Proved experience in a Devops, SRE, Cloud Engineer, or Software Development role.
• Experience with a programming language (We use Python)
• Experience working with observability tooling across the core signals: metrics, logs, and traces.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git
• Experience working with a Cloud hosting provider (we use GCP, but any major cloud provider would be fine)
• Experience with an infrastructure as code tool (We use Terraform)
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with a CI tool such as Jenkins, Github Actions
• Awareness of networking concepts such as IP addressing, DNS, NAT, firewalls, port-forwarding, proxying.

Desirable

• Awareness of Kubernetes
• Awareness of MySQL and/or Postgresql databases
• Awareness of CDNs such as Cloudflare, Cloudfront, or Akama

Our Values; applied

🌍 Better, Connected: We work collaboratively and embrace diversity

💡 Empowering and Empowered: We celebrate ownership and initiative

🔎 Insight-driven: We act based upon data and reflection

🌱 Agents of Change: We innovate and promote sustainability

🌟 Focussed on Excellence: We aim high, and work smart

🚀 Passionately Ambitious: We encourage creativity and strive to improve through innovation

About MPB

We are MPB, the largest global platform for used photography and videography equipment. Our platform transforms the way that people buy, sell and trade in photo and video kit. MPB is a destination for everyone, whether you’ve just discovered your passion for visual storytelling or you’re already a pro.

We recognise the benefit of inclusive practices to better build a diverse community here at MPB. Our commitment to ensuring inclusion fuels and connects us as one with the diverse community of visual storytellers that we serve.

MPB customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of family makeup, race, sexuality, religion, gender identity, disability or age. At MPB, every employee has the opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• 1 wellbeing day off per year
• 5% employer contributory pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Access to EAP with a range of employee discounts
• Buzzing social calendar
• Dog friendly workplace
• Bespoke Learning Management System - the MPB 'Learning Lab' with access thousands of free courses to upskill in any areas you'd like; whether personally or professionally
• 2 volunteer days per year for charity which aligns with MPB values, and of your choosing