Site Reliability Engineer
Ocient Inc.
- Location
- Remote (Remote (United Kingdom or Europe), Scotland)
- Compensation
- £74k - £90k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid Level
Posted 1 week ago
About the role
Ocient is a remote-first, carbon-neutral company delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale. The Site Reliability Engineer role focuses on maintaining and expanding the hosted database service, ensuring high availability, performance, and security for enterprise clients.
Skills
Site Reliability Engineering
Linux
Bash
Python
Ansible
Puppet
Chef
ELK Stack
Prometheus
Grafana
Jenkins
Git
SQL
Cloud Infrastructure
Containerization
Observability
Perks
- Remote Work
Full job details
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote (United Kingdom)
Hiring Manager: Service Delivery Engineering Manager
Estimated salary range: £74,000 to £90,000
• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
Position Overview
Ocient is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for solving hard problems to help maintain and expand Ocient's "as a service" offering of its cutting-edge data warehouse.
Responsibilities
- Support the design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and related services — including message queues and storage systems — ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency.
- Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for all services to facilitate
observability and incident management.
- Automate deployment and configuration Linux-based servers, including the OS and the
numerous applications that compose our hosted offerings.
- Develop and maintain rigorous security practices to protect our applications and customer
data.
- Assist with automation of testing pipelines for the Ocient DB and monitoring of test
infrastructure.
Ideal Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in system administration in production environments.
- Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or other languages.
- Experience with system and software monitoring and alerting tools, such as the ELK stack,
- Graylog, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Dynatrace, or others.
- Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Experience with data archiving, backup and disaster recovery
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment experience with Jenkins, Gitlab CI or
- others.
- Experience with source control tools like Git.
- Ability to work flexible hours and serve in on call rotations.
An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:
- Knowledge of OWASP principles for application security.
- Experience with server / system virtualization and containerization technologies e.g.,
- ProxMox, KVM, VMware.
- Experience with SQL and Database Administration.
- Experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure. (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with SSAE18 SOC2 Compliance.
- Experience with networking administration, including VPN, proxy, DNS, and firewall
configuration.