Site Reliability Engineer II

GoCardless is a global bank payment company seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to join their distributed team. The successful candidate will have a strong interest in infrastructure management and site reliability engineering, and will be responsible for building and maintaining automation of new and existing infrastructure, as well as ensuring systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.

Requirements

• Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang etc.
• Experience with IaC tooling, such as Terraform
• Previous experience with Terraform automation toolings such as Terragrunt or Atlantis will be considered an advantage
• Experience with cloud computing providers such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with containerized applications
• Previous experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and GKE will be considered an advantage
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.
• Experience working with monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix etc.
• Previous experience with centralised log management through Elastic tooling will be considered an advantage
• Experience with relational databases and other datastores, especially around high availability and performance optimisation
• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles
• Fluency in English
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills

Benefits

• Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period (in accordance with our work away policy)
• Adaptive Working - Our hybrid workplace model fosters collaboration and flexibility, with in-office days determined at team level
• Equity - all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
• Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
• Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)