Senior Site Reliability Engineer (UK)
New Yesterday
Location: Edinburgh (or Remote UK), Scotland, United KingdomSalary: Not disclosedDescriptionAbout usWe’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firmsglobally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organizations to achieve extraordinary results.Our enterprise platform stands apart as the only solution that combinesadvanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth,powering confident decisions,and ensuring satisfied clients andteams—we're helping our customers build strong organizations and careers for the long term.Why our customers love Dayshape:We help professional firms optimize margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.We empower firms to be where top talent wants to work and where top clients want to buy from..Recognized as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us.At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an importantdriving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.About the roleAs we grow and more customers are adopting our platform, we are scaling up to meet the demand. This means more automation of our infrastructure and deployments as well as accurate health monitoring through all our clients, both new and old.The person in this role will join the Site Reliability Engineering team (SRE). The main role of the SRE team is to facilitate the scalability of Dayshape and allow us to meet the demands of an increasing client base.What you’ll doLead initiatives to enhance Dayshape’s ability to scale our cloud platformMaintain and improve our cloud estate in AzureImprove SRE and other teams’ working lives through automation of manual tasksLead in making the deployment of Dayshape more scalableIncrease our knowledge sharing of SRE across the organisationImprove the observability of Dayshape through reporting and tool creationDrive improvements to our Cost of Giving Service (COGS)Diagnose and triage escalated issuesSupport, mentor, and coach other members of the teamWork will include the following technologies:AzDevopsTerraformPythonPowershell scriptingAbout youHave significant experience with “Infrastructure as Code”. We are looking for someone who has a genuine enthusiasm for IaC and experience ofDelivered IaC frameworks that can be contributed to by other engineering teams.An understanding of the patterns and practices required to deliver reliable, high-quality results, such as unit and integration testing, CI/CD etc.Writing and debugging Python codeOne or more IaC toolset proficiency e.g. Pulumi or Terraform.Designed and built infrastructure using Azure which takes into consideration: observability, alerting, uptime SLA's and SLO's and Azure DevOps pipelines.Be able to collaborate well with both engineering teams and colleagues in customer-facing teams.Be an excellent communicator both in written and verbal forms.Have an enthusiasm for learning new technologies and how they can be best incorporated into our infrastructure.Able to consider the broader impact of your design and coding decisions and those of othersGreat at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving tricky problems and tackling risks.Keep a cool head in pressure situations, maintaining a problem-solving mindset, but also knowing when to escalateKeen to help guide more junior members of the teamWhat you’ll getStarting salary between £50,000 and £58,493, depending on experienceAt least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 daysPaid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlementEnhanced family leave policiesPrivate healthcare and rewards through VitalityIncome protection and death in service coverAccess to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling serviceInnovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-projectWeekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communicationVolunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work.Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our companyThis is a full-time role (usual hours are 37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though this role will also be required to cover some maintenance windows (roughly once per month) out of these hours (for which you will earn TOIL), as well as on-call rotation for out of hours major incidents (generally 1 week in every 5), for you are remunerated.This is remote or hybrid role. Our office is in Edinburgh and you are welcome to come in when you want to, but it is not required.Join the team!Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, and especially how we scale our technical solutions and ensure they are running smoothly. We're doing well, but there's lots more to do in order to maintain the high bar and pace that we've set.Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to see your application.The deadline for applications is 12:00 on Friday 7th March, with interviews taking place over the following couple of weeks.
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- Location:
- City Of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Job Type:
- FullTime