C6 Bank
Sporty Group
Site Reliability Engineer
JavaScriptPythonJavaNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSDockerKubernetesRustTerraform
What you’ll be doing *
- Work with a team of DevOps and DBA professionals *
- Improve existing infrastructure and processes across the countries we’re deployed in, as well as streamlining processes to deploy to new countries in the future *
- Continuously improve Kubernetes platform stability and efficiency, with a focus on optimising resource utilisation, reducing costs, and streamlining environment provisioning through GitOps-first practices *
- Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructure through autoscaling, alerting pipelines, and Grafana dashboards covering metrics, logs, traces, and real user monitoring (RUM) *
- Own weekday on-call operations, triaging and responding to production incidents, performing root cause analysis, and driving post-incident reviews *
- Design and manage alert pipelines to ensure actionable signal quality, with attention to preventing alert fatigue, waterfall alerting, and notification flooding *
- Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs for critical services, and use them to drive reliability improvements and on-call prioritisation *
- Take ownership and responsibility for our cloud operation activities *
- Liaise with external security agencies for annual audits as well as perform our own internal security sweeps *
- Aid in reconfiguring existing architecture to allow for rapid deployments to new countries *
- Mentoring less experienced team members
What you’ll bring *
- 3+ years DevOps / SRE / platform engineering experience *
- Must be based in Europe *
- Experience independently leading the planning and deployment of a project *
- Experienced with cloud platforms, especially AWS, including solid knowledge of how to utilise cloud resources to fulfil the demand from other teams and production *
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration, with experience in EKS and GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD and Helm being highly valued *
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform *
- Proficiency in scripting and automation with Bash, Python, or Golang; experience with Rust is a plus *
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks covering metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling, for example Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and OpenTelemetry *
- Experience with real user monitoring (RUM), with familiarity in Grafana Faro or OpenTelemetry SDK instrumentation being a plus *
- Proven on-call and incident response experience, comfortable triaging production issues under pressure, leading post-mortems, and driving follow-up actions *
- Ability to design and maintain alert frameworks that minimise noise, prevent alert fatigue, and avoid waterfall alerting patterns *
- Experience defining SLIs and SLOs and using them to inform reliability work *
- Solid networking knowledge, especially the TCP / IP stack and HTTP protocol *
- Experience handling high HTTP request volumes and designing systems for high availability and high traffic environments *
- A strong understanding of cache, including CDN, HTTP cache, Redis / Memcached *
- Excellent troubleshooting skills, including Linux OS issue diagnosis and OS parameter optimisation, JVM optimisation would be highly advantageous
- Familiarity with service mesh concepts is a plus, as we are actively evaluating Cilium-based service mesh in non-production environments *
Our stack *
- Languages: Java / Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, JavaScript *
- Database: Aurora MySQL & PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL Community *
- Cache: ElastiCache, Redis, Valkey *
- Messaging: Apache RocketMQ, AutoMQ, Kafka *
- Networking & Proxy: Nginx, Kong, Cilium, eBPF *
- Orchestration & GitOps: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Helm *
- Computing & Storage: AWS EC2, VPC, AWS Lambda, EBS, S3 *
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions *
- Metrics: Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Alertmanager *
- Logs: Loki, Vector *
- Traces: Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Alloy *
- Profiling: Pyroscope *
- RUM: Grafana Faro, OpenTelemetry SDK *
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform *
- CDN & Edge: Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront *
- AWS CloudWatch
Interview process *
- Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team *
- Online assessment via Hackerrank *
- Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days)
If you’re interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
What’s in it for you *
- Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability *
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter *
- 28 days paid annual leave *
- Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this *
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses *
- Top of the line equipment *
- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
