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.

Working within the Service Operations Team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, your primary role is to bridge the gap between operations staff and developer teams, aiming to expedite developments while retaining core resiliency. As AdTech continually evolves to adopt a DevOps culture you will be expected to leverage your experience in this area to help transition a traditional business application support team to a more agile service management ethos.

What you’ll do:

Work with development and engineering teams to assess and identify optimal Cloud strategy, architecture, and infrastructure solutions.

Providing cloud support and interacting with developers, clients to improve existing cloud solutions at scale at optimal cost.

Deploying microservices and applications using cloud orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and pushing a code via CI/CD pipeline and Gitlab etc.

Ensure that application support standards and processes are implemented and contribute actively to their continuous improvement, including proactive solutions for system monitoring, process change, testing, and analysis

Maintain uninterrupted operations from the beginning to the end of a software’s life cycle and work with relevant teams to deliver stable, resilient system with cutting edge alerting and monitoring, and forward-thinking capacity planning built into the design.

Work on incident resolution and engage various team including 3rd parties for support escalation. Facilitate the investigation and ensure incidents are reviewed and document the findings to enable informed decision-making and boost service reliability. you will be expected to lead the conversation to ensure solutions or acceptable workarounds are found to enable closure of the issue.

What you’ll bring:

Expertise in Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like:EC2, Lambda, S3, AWS Elemental technologies, VPC, ELB, RDS (Dynamo DB/MY SQL) , IAM, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation and Security Groups

Expertise in Google Cloud technologies like cloud functions, app engine, compute engine, cloud storage, fire store, BIG query, Machine learning and GKE

Familiarity with cloud technologies like Kubernetes, docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Azure DevOps, Composer, DAG airflow etc.

Hand on experience on developing and executing Perl, SHELL, BASH, Python and Golang scripts

Ability to write & run SQL and UNIX scripts.

Use of Rest APIs including using tools such as Postman and cloud API gateway.

Team overview

Content, Tech & Innovation: We use the latest tech to create and distribute the best entertainment. In other words, we connect our customers to more of what they love all day, every day. You’ll be joining a proactive, forward-thinking and collaborative team setting the standard for excellent innovation.

Data, Tech & Analytics: TBC

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

Where you’ll work:

Osterley:

Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.

On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, [delete and include option from below.]

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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.