Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

About the RSCThe Royal Society of Chemistry is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemical sciences. As a not-for-profit publisher, we reinvest surplus funds back into the global scientific community, supporting our purpose to help the chemical sciencecommunity make the world a better place.The RSC strives to continuously innovate its product and services to adapt to market and customer needs, maintain relevancy and diversify revenues from print journals. This requires a market-led and outside-in thinking approach to product and service innovation.BenefitsAt the Royal Society of Chemistry, we promote a healthy work/life balance and flexible working options across the organisation. We offer a comprehensive benefits package to all employees including: 26 days paid holiday per annum 35-hour working week with flexible options Enhanced maternity and paternity leave Paid volunteering days Pension plan with up to 12% employer contributions (depending upon your contribution) Life assurance at four times basic annual salary About the roleWe are looking for 1 full-time and 1 part-time Site Reliability Engineers on permanent basis. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be influencing DevOps team to build systems that are reliable, secure and efficient to run in production.You will focus on continually improving our ability to monitor, alert and automate manual operational work. Your work will enable the Royal Society of Chemistry to maximise service delivery, high availability, performance optimisation and ensuring that servicesare efficient at accomplishing their duties, even as those duties scale and evolve.You will be eliminating operational burden through obsessive automation.We are looking for someone who has experience with Amazon Web Services. You will also be able to demonstrable experience in coding for IaC (Infrastructure as Code), particularly with desired state configuration, including Terraform, PowerShell or Python.We are looking for: Experience with Amazon Web Services. Demonstrable experience in coding for IaC (Infrastructure as Code), particularly with desired state configuration, including Terraform, PowerShell or Python. Knowledge and experience of software security vulnerabilities and mitigation. Experience working with DevOps concepts, such as continuous integration, continuous deployment, configuration management, process automation. Experience with monitoring & observability tools (such as New Relic) to maximise service reliabilityThis role is advertised with an open end date and the candidates will be interviewed through October 2022. If you are interested in this role, please apply.A full job description is available here.Location: Hybrid (Cambridge office) or Remote (within the UK)Job type: permanent, full time and part-time availableSalary £52,191 - £63,789You may also have experience in the following: Senior QA Engineer, Test Engineer, IT, QA, Engineer, Engineering, Development, Tester, Quality Assurance, Test Automation, Senior Test Engineer, Reliability Engineer etc.Ref 137 316