Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Gumtree
Mandarin Speaker
3 days a week in office (London Waterloo)
Online local marketplace
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Online local marketplace
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office (London Waterloo)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the go-to marketplace for the Home making every transaction effortless and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Do you thrive on solving complex challenges and building resilient, scalable systems that serve millions?
- If you’re passionate about reliability, automation, and driving innovation this is the role you’ve been looking for
- You’ll be an experienced Site Reliability, Cloud, or DevOps engineer, with a proven record of delivering and managing critical infrastructure projects
- Excellent communication skills are essential to facilitate seamless working across global teams
- Mandarin skills are essential
- You possess deep, hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (ideally GCP) and are a strong advocate for Infrastructure as Code principles using tools like Terraform
- You are proficient in managing containerized environments with Docker and Kubernetes and have experience optimising CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions)
- You’ll have experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- You are knowledgeable in database administration and optimization, specifically PostgreSQL
- You are an exceptional problem-solver with the analytical and debugging skills needed to navigate complex distributed systems and lead effective incident response
- You bring a proactive, "can-do" attitude, taking ownership of your work while inspiring a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence within the team
What the job involves
- This is your chance to make a definitive impact, leveraging your technical capability (GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes etc.) and Mandarin language skills to enable global ways of working during a period of exciting transformation
- You will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure, driving automation initiatives, and leading incident response efforts
- You’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability and performance of Gumtree's critical services, including exploring and leveraging AI and machine learning technologies to enhance operational efficiency and system intelligence
- You’ll join us during a period of exciting growth and secure long-term investment
- Our Cloud Platform Team is the backbone of Gumtree UK, providing the essential infrastructure, tools, and services that enable our development teams to build and deploy applications quickly and reliably
- Based in UK you’ll work closely with our China based Engineering teams ensuring platform resilience, performance, and scalability
- You’ll be a key enabler for growth, taking ownership of our cloud infrastructure, designing and implementing robust systems on GCP using Infrastructure as Code principles
- You won't just react to incidents; you'll lead the response, conduct thorough post-mortems, and build preventative measures to improve our resolution times
- A significant part of your role will involve looking to the future
- You’ll explore and leverage AI and machine learning to proactively detect anomalies and automate recovery processes, pushing the boundaries of operational intelligence
- Through your leadership and mentorship, you’ll elevate the skills of the entire team and embed a culture of reliability across everything we do
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Gumtree is a leading UK online classifieds platform where people can buy, sell, and trade locally. Since 2000, it's connected communities and helped people find exactly what they need, affordably and nearby.
With over 9.2M visitors monthly, Gumtree is a go-to site for millions. And with 2.2M live listings, it's no surprise that its become a household name for anyone looking to buy or sell locally.
With new leadership and investors in place, Gumtree is undertaking a digital transformation to modernise its platform and customer experience. Through migration to a new digital infrastructure, investment in new technology and data-driven insights, it's in the process of an evolution that will renew its platform's appeal to a modern digital audience.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Health and Wellbeing: We’re here to look out for you. With WeCare digital GP and mental health support, and access to Peppy for those tricky health areas like menopause, fertility, baby stuff, and more. Plus, some roles come with Private Medical and Dental Care as an added perk!
- Compensation: We’re all about giving credit where it’s due! That’s why you’ll get a great salary, plus either a yearly bonus or regular commission—depends on the role you’re in. And about your pension—we’ve got your back. We’ll chip in 6%, and you only need to put in 4%. Additionally, we offer Income Protection up to 75% of your annual salary
- Hybrid Working: We've recently moved to our new state-of-the art offices in London Waterloo. Our hybrid policy gives you the flexibility to work where you thrive
- Enhanced Parental Leave: Your family is important to you, so it matters to us too! Our Maternity policy has got you covered 20 weeks on full pay, followed by SMP. Fathers to be are covered for 2 weeks on full pay
- Time off: To help you recharge, you’ll start with at least 25 days of annual leave, increasing to 30 as your length of service grows. We have buy and sell holiday options too. And don’t worry—bank holidays are always included on top
- WF Abroad: We get that flexibility and work-life balance matter to you. That's why we offer 2-4 weeks of working from abroad, depending on your contract
Company HQ
Waterloo, London, UK
Leadership
Mike Fairman
(CEO)Previous CEO of Checkatrade and giffgaff. Also worked as the Head of O2 Broadband and as Head Product Developer for O2 and O2 Telefonica respectively.
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