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“Reliability Engineering represents the beating heart of the Sky Experience, delivered to millions of homes and devices across Europe. We are looking forward to welcoming a new recruit to our dynamic team.” – Mark Ellis, Reliability Manager.

As a member of the Content Delivery team within Sky Group Communications and Infrastructure, you will ensure robust and resilient deployments of systems and applications, to deliver Sky’s latest entertainment experiences to audiences across Europe and beyond. You will be at the technical heart of Sky’s content delivery services and the foundation of Sky’s amazing customer experience.

What you’ll do:

• Operate, troubleshoot and configure content delivery systems so that Sky’s customers can enjoy the great content they love on Sky Glass, Sky Q, Sky Go and Now, among other services. Understand content delivery at scale and act to meet the challenges of a fast-paced technology area.

• Commission and run bare-metal, and cloud/virtual servers delivering web-scale traffic volumes and supporting key delivery infrastructure.

• Manage configuration and upgrades of production operating systems and applications using Ansible with associated secrets management.

• Ensure effective monitoring and logging, on and off server, and connecting raw indicators to key metrics that our customers care about. Deploy & manage basic and advanced log processing systems, from syslog, ELK stacks to Clickhouse.

• Form/Operate CI/CD deployment pipelines with Jenkins or other tools to keep Sky’s content delivery best in class.

• On-call support will be required.

What you’ll bring:

• Specialism as a sysadmin, ideally with RHEL/Centos distributions, with experience focussed on, for example: performance tuning, iptables, pinned repo’s, security hardening.

• Production familiarity with a range of virtualisation/container technologies using e.g., Terraform, Docker, LXC, Xen, LVM, VMware or Openstack with their Cloud equivalents at GC, AWS or Azure.

• Ability to network and secure bare-metal/VM/container systems, ensuring isolation, performance of applications and security considerations.

• Knowledge and practical understanding of TCP/IP, including IPv4, IPv6, DNS and HTTP. Knowledge of networking technologies such as BGP, or what a CDN is and does would be helpful.

• Experience of production-scale deployment and operation of open-source applications such as, Apache Traffic Server, Envoy, Squid, Varnish, HAProxy, nginx.

• A flair for producing clear documentation and diagrams and the ability to manage configuration, shell-scripts and markdown using git.

Our team focuses on technology strategy, design and delivery. From OTT to 5G to Cloud, we work on the latest tech whilst building out our fixed and mobile networks. We’re bold, proactive, forward-thinking and collaborative. Together, we’re proud of the products and services we deliver for our customers.

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:

Brick Lane is in the heart of the East End of London. It’s part of a vibrant and diverse 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.