Site Reliability Engineer II

Job Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer II at GoCardless, a Mollie company, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and stability of our systems. GoCardless is a global leader in bank payments, processing over $130bn+ annually across 30+ countries.

Responsibilities

The Platform Engineering team is a unified, globally distributed team that works with all other engineering teams to empower them to build, release, run, and scale their products. Your responsibilities will include:

• Building and maintaining automation of new and existing infrastructure
• Ensuring systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Working closely with software engineers and data scientists
• Being involved in the technical design of architecture and making technical decisions
• Automating operational tasks to eliminate toil using software development skills and experience
• Ensuring that systems are designed to be easy to understand and maintain

Requirements

• Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang
• Experience with IaC tooling, such as Terraform
• Previous experience with Terraform automation toolings such as Terragrunt or Atlantis will be considered an advantage
• Experience with cloud computing providers such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with containerized applications
• Previous experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and GKE will be considered an advantage
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Experience working with monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus
• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles
• Fluency in English
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with relational databases and other datastores, especially around high availability and performance optimisation

What We Offer

• Base salary range: £62,400 - £93,600
• Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
• Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
• Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
• Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
• Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)