Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer Europe (UK, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Spain) | Remote | Work from home Why Pythian: At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics. Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client's data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today's rapidly changing digital economy. Why you? As the Senior Site Reliability Engineer you play a critical role in the following key areas of responsibility: Ensure services and systems are reliable by focusing on scalability, latency, performance, availability, efficiency, and observability. Develop systems and maintain key components to automate and minimize human labor. Enhance system reliability while decoupling system size from operational toil and complexity. Training and mentoring - both technical and customer satisfaction oriented. If you Love Your Data™ and enjoy solving complex business and technical problems and want to Love your career then this could be the job for you! What will you be doing? Use relevant development languages and knowledge of systems, services, and tools appropriate for the business area to build software applications. Serves as the primary contact for this area. Develop readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries. Mentor junior team members on code readability and reusability. Ensure data security, integrity, and quality by adhering to company standards and best practices. Design solutions that fulfill current business requirements and accommodate future enhancements. Guide teams to guarantee systems are reusable and interoperable. Use best practices to reduce risks to business operations by creating clear documentation like runbooks and operational guides. Collaborate with development teams to define and implement relevant observability metrics, with the goal of enhancing application reliability. Spearhead incident response for issues impacting their track. Leverage new technologies and automation to reduce operational and maintenance costs. Eliminate technical debt, identify scaling bottlenecks, and proactively plan for future growth to ensure infrastructure is kept up-to-date. Use excellent technical judgement, innovation, and execution to prioritize and solve challenging problems. Independently drive business results across multiple teams by either leading high-level architectural decisions or implementing complex components of a project. Set technical strategy and define technical roadmaps with cross-team dependencies for business impacting projects, requiring a high level of technical expertise.

At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.