Site Reliability Engineer - Manchester

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Manchester or Chester.

You will be working for the loans and affordability platform for the client. You will help to transform, modernise, and re-imagine the existing consumer services, adopting the latest technology and agile ways of working to deliver iterative value at pace.  The ideal candidate will have at least 1 year of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Delivering against Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and SRE Public Cloud technology roadmaps
• Building & supporting shared hosting services such as Kubernetes, Ingress/Egress, Networking patterns, Certificates & data resources on public cloud
• Implement the best use of DevOps tools, like Jenkins, harness, source control platforms such as GIT, GHE
• Troubleshooting, investigating & diagnosing service issues, with an engineering mentality – then work with the service teams to ensure changes are put in place so that the same issues are not encountered again.
• Implementing continued enhancements to drive improvements
• Designing and implementing secure automation solutions for our develop, test and production pipelines
• Collaboratively working with other engineering teams to build, release and evolve enterprise-class solutions, that are reliable and evergreen as cloud technologies continue to mature as a fast-pace
• Responsible for the operations of a large set of Cloud products and services

Requirements

• Experience working with a broad set of GCP products (or extensive experience with another Public Cloud platform, such as Azure or AWS)
• Strong DevOps understanding, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps
• Ability to quickly understand, update and write code in languages such as Python, Groovy, BASH, PowerShell
• A strong understanding of Cloud security and networking
• Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrate a passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills
• Strong understanding and demonstrable use of source control practice and collaborative working as part of an engineering team
• Experience of developing for, or administrating Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• Experience in automating/scripting to remove toil

Why join us?

• Career coaching and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Initial upskilling pre-assignment that has been accredited by TechSkills
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to obtain certifications from Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco and more
• Access to the Buy As You Earn share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 4,000 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.