Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help implement new technologies and tooling to further enable data science and analytics. In this role you will be responsible for the platforms both on-premises and in-the-cloud and support the team from a system administration perspective.

What you’ll do:

• Build, operate and evolve our data platform that supports real-time and batch data pipelines from diverse sources, predominantly focussed upon data in the telecoms space.
• Contribute to the development of new data pipelines, ensuring agreed requirements and standards are met whilst being uncompromising when it comes to ensuring existing services continue to operate reliably across the end-to-end delivery chain
• Mentor the wider data engineering team, broadening their technical capabilities alongside relevant best practices, standards and policies.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data delivery and evolving current solutions whilst ensuring continuity of service.
• Develop a cohesive solution for data scientist team members allowing for the rapid development and validation of models/hypothesis keeping us as an innovative industry leader.
• Collaborate and guide data consumers on tooling, process and platform related queries.

What you’ll bring:

• Graduate degree BSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar. Strong communications skills.
• System Administration knowledge and experience in deploying and administrating open-source software. Strong troubleshooting skills related to working with big data platforms.
• Big data platforms knowledge and experience working with high volume, high velocity data.
• Build processes supporting platform automation. A successful history of deploying and managing containerised applications, as well as implementing CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience in building scalable data platforms.
• Awareness of security practices and privacy concerns when working with data across both in-house and cloud platforms.

Key technologies:

• Apache Airflow / NiFi / Kafka / ZooKeeper
• Confluent ecosystem (Connect / Schema Registry / ksqlDB)
• GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, C/Functions, IAM)
• RHEL Linux / Terraform / Ansible
• Containers (Docker / Harbor / Kubernetes)
• Python (Nice to have)

Group Communications and Infrastructure

Looking to be part of non-stop innovation? Join our Group Communications and Infrastructure team and you’ll work alongside experts in broadband, telephony, mobile, cloud and infrastructure. We’re the team that designs, builds, supports, and maintains the telecoms networks across the whole Sky Group. Together, we help Sky broadband, mobile and TV enter new markets by creating a single and secure infrastructure for the outstanding content and services that keep our customers coming back for more.

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Where you’ll work:

Brick Lane:

Our Brick Lane office is in the heart of the East End of London. It’s part of a vibrant and varied community; close to street food, cafes, and shops.

The closest tube station is Aldgate East and Liverpool Street is about a 10-minute walk.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.