Site Reliability Engineer, Tyk
APAC/EMEA
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Open-source API gateway & management platform
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Open-source API gateway & management platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect every system in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Strong collaboration skills
- Launching and operating production 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 system
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and Containers
- Go and/or Python (advanced)
- AWS (proficient)
- Linux (proficient)
- Terraform and IaC in general (proficient)
- Helm (familiar)
- MongoDB (or similar)
- Redis (or similar)
- Monitoring & logging
- Grasp of networking concepts (subnets, routing, peering, load balancing, NAT, etc.)
- Common networking protocols (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, UDP)
What the job involves
- At Tyk, we’re obsessed with building software that solves problems. We count on our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions
- Our customer base is growing, so we’re seeking an experienced SRE to optimise, automate, and improve our performance, using insights from massive-scale data in real time
- We want an original thinker, a challenger, a technical legend, an opinionated collaborator who wants to make things better
- Proactive Monitoring: Ensure our production Cloud environment operates within defined SLAs through vigilant monitoring and proactive issue resolution
- Alerting and Monitoring: Collaborate with Senior SRE to identify opportunities for building proactive alerting and monitoring systems; implement solutions to enhance system reliability
- Performance Metrics: Contribute to defining key performance metrics for Cloud services, enabling performance improvements and success measurement
- Solutions Development: Propose and develop solutions to maintain and enhance key performance indicators (KPIs) across our Cloud infrastructure
- Data Analysis: Gather and analyse metrics from operating systems and applications to optimise system performance and expedite fault resolution
- Innovation: Drive innovation by optimising system and infrastructure performance, anticipating customer needs, and proactively addressing scaling demands
- Scalability: Work closely with commercial functions to optimise our platform for scalability and meet growing customer demands
- Cloud Infrastructure: Analyse and ensure the automation, scalability, and efficient management of our Cloud infrastructure
- Automation: Execute automation for known cloud operations tasks and create new automation solutions to streamline processes
- Software Development: Design, write, and deliver software and automation solutions to enhance the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our PaaS services
- Root Cause Analysis: Participate in blame-free root cause analysis meetings to promote learning and continuous system improvement in the event of production system incidents
- Documentation: Create and contribute to policies and runbooks to ensure that operational processes are well-documented and consistently followed
- On-call Support: Provide on-call support, ensuring our Cloud services follow a 24/7 model by promptly responding to alerts, meeting SLAs, and automating root cause analysis
- Upgrades and Migrations: Plan and execute software upgrades, including Kubernetes versions. Manage and communicate migrations from Classic Cloud to the new Cloud platform
Our take
Tyk offers an API management platform that enables companies to securely share data with third parties, facilitating the sale of services through non-direct channels. This solution helps businesses harness the power of their APIs on a large scale while ensuring data security and accessibility.
The platform acts as both a management and security layer between APIs, simplifying the process for organisations to manage access. By providing a robust security framework, Tyk ensures that only authorised users can interact with an organisation's APIs, thereby protecting sensitive data.
With millions of transactions processed daily for thousands of organisations, including notable clients like AXA, Cisco, Trip Advisor, Starbucks, Domino's, Sephora, and the UK Ministry of Justice, Tyk has established itself as a trusted leader in API management.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Apr 2019
$5.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40.4m
Company benefits
- 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
- Volunteering Days
- Employee Wellbeing platform
Company HQ
Shoreditch, London
Leadership
Martin Buhr
(Founder & CEO)Previously the Head of Technology and Product Development at Lucky Voice for 3 years and a Technical Architect at LBi for 1 year.
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