Senior Site Reliability Engineer

September 25

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Dayshape

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resource planning • resource scheduling • AI • workforce optimisation • workload management

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Description

• About us • We’re an award-winning enterprise software scale-up with high ambitions for growth. We recently won the ScotlandIS Digital Tech Enterprise Business of the Year award and have previously been recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years. • Dayshape is an advanced resource management solution, incorporating AI and intelligent automation to help professional services firms optimise their workforce like never before. • It’s built to handle large, complex, and ever-changing requirements with ease. • Our customers include accountancy firms from the Big Four and global top 10, and Dayshape is used in more than 50 countries across five continents. Our target customers are global firms, international networks, and large nationwide or regional organisations, if they’re big enough to have the challenges that Dayshape can solve. • As a company, we live our values every day and we're committed to making sure our friendly and inclusive environment grows with us. • About the role • As 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 do • Lead initiatives to enhance Dayshape’s ability to scale our cloud platform • Maintain and improve our cloud estate in Azure • Improve SRE and other teams’ working lives through automation of manual tasks • Lead in making the deployment of Dayshape more scalable • Increase our knowledge sharing of SRE across the organisation • Improve the observability of Dayshape through reporting and tool creation • Drive improvements to our Cost of Giving Service (COGS) • Diagnose and triage escalated issues • Support, mentor, and coach other members of the team • Work will include the following technologies: • Azure • AzDevops • Terraform • Pulumi • Python • Powershell scripting • Yaml pipelines

Requirements

• Have significant experience with “Infrastructure as Code”. We are looking for someone who has a genuine enthusiasm for IaC and experience of • Delivered 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 code • One 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 others • Great 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 escalate • Keen to help guide more junior members of the team

Benefits

• Starting salary between £50,000 and £58,493, depending on experience • At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development • 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days • Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement • Enhanced family leave policies • Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality • Income protection and death in service cover • Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme • Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service • Innovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-project • Weekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication • Volunteering 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 company