Site Reliability Engineer with experience of Java, Stockholm

About the assignment:

- Location: Stockholm
- Duration: 6 months
- Start: TBD
- Apply: as soon as possible
- Extent: 100%
- Please note that the mandatory requirements must be met in full for us to present your profile to our Customer.


Description

The client is now looking for an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) that will be responsible for ensuring that services are available, the underlying infrastructure is properly functioning, and other internal tools, processes, and systems are working as expected. An essential responsibility also includes monitoring critical applications and related services to ensure availability during critical business hours

Work tasks:

- Thoroughly analyse assigned systems and supported business to understand design and functionality in relation to stakeholder needs.
- Identify, establish, and uphold appropriate system Service Level Objectives (SLOs) together with the team and implement the use of error budgets along with policies/consequences for deviating from them.
- Ensure observability and monitoring of relevant systems. Provide guidelines and educate the product teams on observability practices/standards around metrics, logs and traces.
- Proactively seek out system weaknesses and find ways to fix them before they cause production issues using monitoring data, watching trends, and using Chaos Engineering.
- Build automated solutions and tools to help debug and resolve problems in production and prevent them from reoccurring.
Lead blameless post-mortems for incidents together with different product teams and vendors.
- Be part of on-call rotations to ensure SLOs are met, with the goal of eliminating the need for support outside of office hours.


Mandatory competence and experience:

- Academic degree in systems development, or equivalent knowledge and skills acquired through work experience and continuing professional education.
- Software development.
- Database management systems and SQL.
- Containerization with OpenShift/Kubernetes.
- Integration though KAFKA and message queues.
- Java
- Cloud (Azure/AWS)
- Proven experience in developing production-grade, performant, scalable and durable applications.
- Experience at all levels of the technology stack, i.e. Infrastructure, Database, API, components and front-end.
- Hands on experience of managing complex, high-volume applications/components in production critical environments.
- Experience of performance tuning techniques, stability patterns and scalability approaches.
- Experience of fact-based, data-driven problem solving and communication.
- Proven ability to independently capture and share information through formal written documentation in English and local language.
- Fluent in English and Swedish, both spoken and written.
- Process oriented mind-set and a strong ability to follow and apply the processes and methods to secure cross functional efficiency and collaboration.


Preferred competence and experience:

- Previous work experience of Site Reliability Engineering is meritorious.

Preferred personal qualities:

- Excellent analytical skills.
- Good leadership qualities.
- Excellent in planning and working in a very structured way.


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How to proceed with the process

- Apply for the assignment through this ad.
- State your preferred hourly rate in the application.
- Upload your CV in word format.
- We will revert to you if we need further information or clarification regarding your application.
- The Customer usually reverts to us within 10 working days from the last application date. We aim to get back to you promptly with any new information regarding your application or the assignment. If you have not received any information from us within this time frame, please contact us through our platform.


You will be informed about the Customer should you be called to an interview.

About Shaya Solutions

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