Site Reliability Engineer Remote - Canada, Americas / Engineering

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**Site Reliability Engineer**Remote - Canada, Americas / Engineering We offer The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services.Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!) If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London – UK, London – Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.**Our Mission**Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform. ****Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility****If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more. ****The role:****We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to manage, maintain, improve and provide support on our platform. You will be curious by nature, always looking for ways to improve, as we will look to you for new ideas, solutions and metrics on how we can improve the platform. You will also be our first line of incident management to our clients and will help define our response going forward. This is a great opportunity to become an integral part of Tyk as we continue on our journey.As a remote first company, you will have the opportunity to work with an industry leading distributed team. Having access to expertise from across the globe will give you both the support and opportunity to help shape not only Tyk’s Cloud platform but also the Tyk as a whole as we continue to grow.**Here’s what you’ll be responsible for:*** Maintaining global Tyk Cloud within SL(A/I/O)s you will help to define* Identifying reliability issues and working together with your squad to solve them* Identifying and introducing new metrics and building relevant dashboards* Participating in the on-call rotation* Working with your squad to expand multi-region and multi-cloud reach of the platform* Documenting operational knowledge* Conducting post-incident analysis* Automating common tasks* Be a key shaper and contributor to our continuous improvement agenda – be it the clarity of our user stories, how we estimate, communicate with other teams or customers – we expect this role to be advocate of continuous improvement* Reliability of our new global Tyk Cloud platform* Automation of operations and support* Writing and maintaining documentation on SRE processes and policies* Recommending and implementing ways of driving operational efficiency and driving down our cost to run, without impacting service* Assisting in penetration testing for Cloud through liaising with our provider, providing technical details, and environment setup* Incident management****Here’s what we’re looking for:******Experience*** Strong collaboration skills* Launching and operating production scale kubernetes clusters* Designing and operating infrastructure on AWS and other providers* Operating MongoDB (or other document database) clusters* Operating Redis (or other key-value storage) clusters* Administering Linux servers* Maintaining distributed software* Operating Prometheus and Grafana* Operating logging collection and analysis systems* Working hours within 16:00pm – 4:00am UTC**Skills:*** Kubernetes & containers (advanced)* AWS / EKS (advanced)* Linux (advanced)* Terraform and IaC in general (proficient)* Helm (proficient)* Go and/or Python (familiar)* MongoDB (or similar)* Redis (or similar)* Monitoring – prometheus, grafana, thanos (familiar)* Grasp of networking concepts (subnets, routing, peering, load balancing, NAT, etc.)* Common networking protocols (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, UDP)* Proactive, energetic, innovative and change oriented**Nice to have:*** GCP or Azure* Bare metal infrastructure engineering* API management experience* Large scale distributed storage management* Familiarity with Rancher* CKA/CKAD/CKS* Creating and delivering production software in Go language****Here’s why you should join us:***** *Everyone* has unlimited paid holiday. * We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all. * Employee share scheme * Generous maternity and paternity leave * Company retreats **Our values tell the story of Tyk – here’s how:*** **It’s ok to screw up!** We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones – so try it, at least we can say we have! * **The only stupid idea, is the untested one!** It’s in our DNA – starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free – sure, we did that, and we’d do it again! * **Trust starts with you – make it count!** Trust is a two-way street – instill it from day one! * **Assume best intent!** We have each other’s back – we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act. * **Make things, better!** Always try to leave things better than when you found them – change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see. Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable. or Reject all no essential ones. **Privacy Overview** #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Location:
Ipswich, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£150,000 - £200,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering

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