Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering Enablement team. This is a critical role within a large, complex, and high-impact initiative focused on deconstructing our monolithic architecture, revitalising our technology stack, and embedding quality and resilience into every stage of our development lifecycle.
You will play a pivotal role in shaping our future-state platform, driving operational excellence, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
What You'll Do:
As a Senior SRE Engineer in our Engineering Enablement team, you will:
• Architect and Implement Reliability: Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, resilient, and performant systems on Azure, focusing on our Java, Kafka, and Couchbase stack.
• Drive Modernisation: Work hands-on as part of the team spearheading the adoption of Micronaut, standardising application templates, and transitioning to managed cloud services.
• Enhance Operational Excellence: Develop and implement strategies for improving system observability (standardised logging, metrics, tracing), alerting, and on-call practices.
• Automate Everything: Champion automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from CI/CD pipelines to infrastructure provisioning, focusing on accelerating delivery and de-risking deployments.
• Incident Management & Learning: Contribute to our mature, blameless post- incident review process, identifying root causes and implementing preventative measures to reduce incident hours.
• Tooling & Standards: Develop, maintain, and drive the adoption of shared, standardised SRE tooling and best practices across engineering teams, including containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes on Azure), infrastructure as code (e.g.,Terraform), and configuration management.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of SRE principles and operational excellence across the wider engineering organisation.
• Strategic Input: Contribute to the overall technical strategy and roadmap for our SRE and platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
What You'll Bring:
• Deep SRE Expertise: Proven experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer or a similar role, with a strong understanding of SRE principles (error budgets, SLOs/SLIs, toil reduction).
• Azure Cloud Proficiency: Extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating highly available and scalable applications on Microsoft Azure.
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Expertise: Mandatory extensive hands-on experience with AKS for container orchestration, including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Java Ecosystem Mastery: Expert-level proficiency with Java, including experience with modern frameworks (ideally Micronaut, Spring Boot, or similar) and JVM performance tuning.
• Distributed Systems Knowledge: Solid understanding and practical experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and associated challenges (e.g., consistency, fault tolerance).
• Messaging & Database Expertise: Hands-on experience with an event streaming platform (ideally Kafka) and NoSQL data storage (ideally Couchbase), including operational best practices.
• Automation First Mindset: Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) and experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, ARM templates) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
• Observability Tools: Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk).
• Problem-Solving Acumen: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a methodical approach to diagnosing and resolving complex production issues.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Continuous Improvement: A proactive and innovative mindset, always seeking ways to improve systems, processes, and team efficiency.
Some of the benefits you’ll enjoy working with us:
• The chance to join an organization with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm on how software products are built.
• The opportunity to form part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech expert
• A highly competitive compensation package.
• Medical insurance.
• English lessons.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience with SRE principles (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, toil reduction)
- Extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating applications on Microsoft Azure
- Extensive hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Expert-level proficiency with Java and JVM performance tuning
- Experience with modern Java frameworks (Micronaut or Spring Boot)
- Practical experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Hands-on experience with event streaming (Kafka) and NoSQL (Couchbase) operations
- Containerisation experience (Docker) and Kubernetes operational knowledge
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM templates)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk)
- Experience with incident management, blameless post-incident reviews, and preventative measures
- Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers
What We Do
At Parser we help organisations leverage on digital to advance their business strategy. For us, creativity, talent, and passion are indispensable to succeed. This is why we are committed to building, nurturing, and empowering a diverse, multi-disciplinary environment, where every team member can grow professionally and achieve their ambitions, while helping our clients deliver amazing digital products. Thanks to our flexible, distributed model of global operation and the high calibre of our experts, we have enjoyed triple digit growth over the past five years, creating amazing career opportunities for our people across 4 continents. Our services: - Digital Strategy & Transformation We help you understand market trends, relevant technologies, and aligned with your business strategy we create your vision and set the digital direction. This enables you to focus efforts and integrate business and technology across your organisation. - Digital Portfolio Management Based on a clear vision and direction, we help you assess your position, execute your digital strategy and manage your portfolio. We do this by integrating a range of diverse business and technical practises, transforming your organisation in the process. - Product & Service Development We help you create new experiences by designing user journeys that bridge all of the relevant departments of your organisation. By harnessing our ecosystem of specialised talent, we can provide relevant and focused expertise on demand.
