Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer Edinburgh -Remote Outside

Summary

We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure as Code engineer with a strong Unix background is required to assist one of our Public Sector clients in the design and build of a new datacentre platform and improve the existing setup. This is a 6 month initial contract that falls outside IR35 and is remote.

LocationMainly remote working for the foreseeable future, except where access to physical hardware is required, which will be on-site in Edinburgh when needed.

Main outcomes & objectives

• Maintain and develop Arista network automation using Ansible/Python
• Support and deploy Ansible Tower/Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Assist with development of RHEL8 automated build process
• Support and enhance existing python codebase
• Support and develop Ansible playbooks for network based services Additional services
• Provide expert guidance on setup and support for current platform
• Support disaster recovery testing activities
• Streamline existing Unix administration tasks using Ansible
• Red Hat Satellite management
• Develop and maintain python-based site monitoring for Solaris, NetApp, Oracle & NSX using REST APIs, InfluxDB, Grafana & Nagios
• Implement and support Load Balancer technologies such as HAProxy, DNSDist and keepalived

Essential skills & experience Significant and demonstrable commercial experience of the following:

• Programming/scripting skills
• Bash
• Python
• Ansible, including Ansible Tower deployment and administration
• Docker/Podman container and image management
• Hashicorp Vault administration inclusive of AppRole
• Load Balancer technologies, e.g. HAProxy and keepalived
• Grafana, Nagios and InfluxDB
• Agile working practices, including Kanban/Scrum, retrospectives, VFQ.
• Customer focused, through proactive engagement
• Risk aware, focused on risk reduction and mitigation
• Effective team working and technical decision making
• Experience in delivering infrastructure projects
• Creativity - taking new approaches to tackle problems; embracing innovation and sharing knowledge with a range of stakeholders
• Strong documentation skills
• DevOps practices, including automation of infrastructure

Desirable skills & experience

• General security design and architecture knowledge
• Infrastructure as Code development experience
• Basic understanding of Networking practices
• Experience working with Arista technologies including AVD and CVP
• Unix
• RHEL 6/7/8 System administration
• Red Hat Satellite administration
• Automation
• NetApp
• Ontap 9 CLI
• REST API

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age