Lead Site Reliability Engineer

So, what's the role all about?

Here at NICE Public Safety, we provide state of the art solutions for the Public Safety & Justice market, providing software as a service for multi-media evidence management and Emergency Contact Centres to a worldwide customer base.

We are currently expanding our Cloud Platform Engineering team to ensure we continue to offer exemplary service to our customers. This is a very hands-on role. You will be involved in ensuring our cloud platforms are observable, measurable, reliable, scalable, and maintainable. It’s likely that the successful candidate will have significant experience in a DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineer, or Cloud Development role.

NOTE – The successful candidate must have lived in the UK for 5 years and be eligible to obtain NPPV3 + Security Clearance. 

How will you make an impact?

• Act as part of a team of SRE’s that act as the ‘gatekeepers’ of production and actively manage the work backlog and develop reliability improvements.
• Lead investigations into root cause outages, performance, and cost issues.
• Lead initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands.
• You will provide technical leadership and to wider Cloud Operations and Support teams along with providing oversight to the products and services they support.
• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to establish and enforce SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets
• Develop and configure monitoring dashboards and alerts in tools like Grafana and Azure Monitor.
• Installation and configuration of Observability Platform including tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Open telemetry etc.
• Developing bicep modules for monitoring infrastructure and deploy it.
• Optimize system performance, cost, and security through regular reviews and tuning.

Do you have what it takes?

• Must have 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering
• Excellent technical, analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience and in-depth knowledge of databases and data handling (MS-SQL, Elasticsearch, YML, JSON, XML)
• Experience with Azure cloud
• Significant experience in programming or advanced scripting (Python, PowerShell, C# etc.)
• Experience with infrastructure/configuration as code and version control (ARM, BICEP, Git)
• Strong Experience managing monitoring, alerting and dashboarding platforms (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch)
• Demonstrable experience of supporting live cloud services and platforms
• Expert in developing queries for dashboards and alerting for microservices.
• Expertise in developing custom metrics for microservices
• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to establish and enforce SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and containerization (AKS)
• Exposure to Azure DevOps pipelines is desirable (CI/CD)
• Strong experience in infrastructure as a code, design and implementation strategies.
• Experience with AI (tools) to automate and accelerate is a plus.
• Efficient, effective, and respectful communication skills both with customers and within internal departments. Including,
  • Good listener, able to identify and validate assumptions.
  • Able to use effective questioning to confirm understanding of a customer problem and then provide help to solve it.
  • Methodical troubleshooting, technical skill and attention to detail used in diagnosing problems and reproducing issues in a local environment.
  • Multi-tasking and time-management to prioritise and switch between varied tasks.
• Significant experience in platform engineering, observability, and provisioning.
• Proven ability to develop and implement a strategic vision for platform services, observability, and provisioning.
• Strong understanding of cyber security principles, governance, and compliance frameworks.
• Strong understanding and experience of cloud platforms, containerisation, and microservices architecture.
• Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level.
• Strong proficiency in technical scoping, architecture design, and integration of security tools and processes.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable, user-centric cloud solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus thought leadership and solution development.
• Experience in both operational and transformation roles or a clear working understanding of both perspectives.
• Knowledge of compliance with relevant frameworks, including ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials + or FEDRAMP

Tooling

• Kubernetes (Ideally AKS)
• Azure Devops Pipelines
• Elasticsearch and Cloud Observability Stacks
• IAC (Bicep/Terraform)
• Powershell / C#

Beneficial Certifications

• AZ 104
• AZ 305
• AZ 500
• AZ 700
• CKA

Requisition ID: 10820
Reporting into: Director, Engineering, 
Role Type: Individual Contributor

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