Staff Engineer, LearnUpon

• 7+ years of experience in a software or Ops role
• 5+ years of cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years experience with AWS
• Experience in designing and implementing Observability tech stacks
• Have championed the benefits of Observability to Engineering teams
• Can architect the design of SLO/SLI implementation that balances the needs of different teams
• Familiar with cost analysis of Observability metrics gathering, Engineering effort, and tooling
• Experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems that back a consumer app or website with associated requirements of performance, security and disaster recovery
• Experience deploying Microservice environments, using containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience with implementing IaaC (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform etc.), automation tooling (e.g. Puppet, Ansible etc.), CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, Travis CI, GitLab etc.)
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas to and collaborate with both technical and non-technical peers
• Experience with database scaling would be a strong plus

Desirable

• LearnUpon is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in Dublin, Ireland
• You will be part of the SRE Team, which sits within LearnUpon’s Engineering group
• We are a small team focused on developing and supporting our cloud infrastructure and app services, to ensure platform scalability and site uptime
• Our flagship product is coded predominantly in Ruby on Rails, with data managed through a common mix of current SaaS back-end technologies including AWS backed services
• We also use local containerised development environments
• However, we are not bound to our tech stack
• We prefer choosing the right technology for the right problem so you’ll have plenty of space to grow your skills
• We are key consultants for the entire company on matters of infrastructure feasibility
• As a Staff Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering, you will be part of the team responsible for the scale-out of the LearnUpon infrastructure
• Identifying opportunities to improve and scale our infrastructure for performance, observability, maintainability, and cost, by creating innovative solutions
• Leading our efforts to build an observability function that incorporates application metrics, application transaction tracking, and event log management
• Driving the processes to maintain resilient, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure
• Working with other Engineering teams to provide infrastructure solutions that meet their ongoing requirements
• Building tools focused on measuring, monitoring and alerting, with an eye towards self-service in order to promote Engineers’ ownership of observability
• Reacting quickly to changing customer and business needs
• Participate in on-call rota
• Mentoring junior talent

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a screening call
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with a member of our C-Suite Team
• The successful candidate will be contacted with an offer to join our team