Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 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. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our SRE Team

Software Engineering is a cross functional team that uses cutting edge technology to provide applications that put us ahead of competition across online content, customer service and sales. 

We operate reliability across personalisation and big data services for Sky clients and devices across the world. Being a global capability brings us big challenges, and everything we do, we do at a large scale. To allow us to operate at such a large scale, automation is at the heart of everything we do. We deliver a platform and CI/CD solutions to allow developers to build and deploy safely for systems which support millions of concurrent customers. 

What you’ll do:

• Building our global platforms across multiple clouds and multiple regions to support development teams working on our personalisation, machine learning and big data services 

• Enhancing and supporting a build framework for continuous deployment and platform automation

• Mentoring engineers both SRE and developers to help them design the right solutions and promote a culture of reliability and automation

• Working with development teams to diagnose performance, reliability and security issues in applications and system design

• Working with our technical suppliers to ensure our systems are following best practices and taking advantage of new technologies

• Work within the larger reliability department to ensure we are following similar design patterns and avoiding duplicated work

What you’ll bring:

• Strong experience using infrastructure as code and working with immutable infrastructure and configuration tools such as Terraform and Ansible to achieve end-to-end automation.

• Experience working with CI/CD solutions to enable automation of infrastructure at scale (pipeline design, testing and best practices using Jenkins/Concourse/GoCD/Gitlab)

• Programming and scripting including testing (Go/Python and BASH)

• Cloud Platforms (designing infrastructure deployment patterns within AWS/GCP and using managed services, such as big data tooling effectively)

• Container Orchestration and mesh networking (e.g., Kubernetes and Istio)

• Good working knowledge of database, in particular strong knowledge in at least one of Kafka or Cassandra

Team Overview:

We bring the best from the global market into Sky – we buy technology, marketing, corporate, operational services and editorial production solutions. We are an international team working with our stakeholders our partners to curate the most effective and efficient customer-led operating model. High ethical standards are embedded in our team, and we engage our supply chains in creating a sustainable future!

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