Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Dayshape
£50-58.5k
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AI-powered resource management software
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AI-powered resource management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£50-58.5k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve people's working lives.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- This is a full-time role (usual hours are 37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though this role will also be required to cover some maintenance windows (roughly once per month) out of these hours (for which you will earn TOIL), as well as on-call rotation for out of hours major incidents (generally 1 week in every 5), for you are remunerated
- 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
- 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
Our take
Dayshape offers AI-powered resource management software developed to help professional services firms meet profit and growth targets, and client service standards, and offer more rewarding careers for employees. Its features include automated resource scheduling, approval workflows and engagement performance alerts, capacity planning tools, and skills tracking.
Dayshape has 30,000+ global users across 20 countries, including two of the Big Four professional services firms. This is a big coup: competitors are plentiful in this space, especially now that complex hybrid workforces have increased the market appetite for tools to help manage them. As a purpose-built and dedicated solution, Dayshape’s focus on automation, people-first planning, and real-time project financials, gives it an edge against legacy resource management tools.
Dayshape is using its remarkably fast growth (it’s regularly been the fastest-growing Scottish tech company of the year) to continue its global expansion into the US, where the professional services industry includes well over a million different firms.
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Nice people
"Dayshape has some of the nicest people I have ever worked with, my team is very close knit and even with remote working we find ways to stay..."
Company benefits
- Innovation Week twice a year, a chance to experiment and work off-project
- Weekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
- 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, online games, D&D, and at-home cocktail classes!
- Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company
- Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
- 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
- Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality
- Enhanced family leave
- Income protection and death in service cover
- Matched 5% salary sacrifice or auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
- Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
- Salary sacrifice EV car scheme
Company values
- Ever-improving - Today our best, tomorrow better
- Unity - Working together, aligning our goals
- Well-being - People first, always
- Well-formed opinions - Everyone gets a say. It’s mandatory
Company HQ
Edinburgh Old Town, Edinburgh, UK
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Leadership
Andrew Bone
(Co-Founder & Chair )Originally a Software Engineer, who then worked as an Assurance Executive with PwC, and then took on various roles at RBS.
Alastair Andrew
(Co-Founder & Principal Engineer)Previously a Software Engineer at Graham Technology, who went on to complete a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde.
Matt Cockett
(CEO)Matt brings extensive experience in scaling global tech companies in people-centric sectors and will guide the business as we expand into more geographies and industries.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Dayshape
Alex Chaudhary (Office & Employee Experience Manager)
- We have an employee-led DEI board
- We run regular DE&Ialogue sessions on different DEI topics where employees can share their experiences and learn from each others' perspectives on topics like family life, LGBTQ+, mental health, neurodiversity, and more
- We are a Disability Confident committed employer
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