Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud

About First Engineers

We are a Norwegian recruitment and consultancy company, innovative and with global ambitions. We are recruitment engineers specialized within our core markets. We welcome you to take part in our journey.

Since our establishment we have set a clear focus on delivering recruitment and contract services within a selection of industries. Working consistently within the tech-environment has enabled us to become a specialist recruitment and consultancy company. First Engineers deliver multidisciplinary personnel; engineers, specialists, management and administrative personnel, in our core markets. Our markets are global and we offer our services both domestically and internationally. Our clients range from start-ups to global powerhouses in our industries.

Position

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who wants to work on challenging problems processing petabytes of data where every millisecond counts!

The Site Reliability Engineer can work across disciplines and work collaboratively with software development teams. The ideal candidate can, on any given day, focus on automation, scripting and tooling, application monitoring, and support development while aiming for a 50% operational and 50% improvement balance. The Site Reliability Engineer designs solutions, implements them, and keeps our cloud, systems, and network running. We are looking for individuals people who share interesting solutions to those challenges; solutions informed by their unique experiences, passions, and expertise. Our client is a highly collaborative team of creative thinkers and problem solvers dedicated to crafting simple, flexible solutions to complex, rigid problems.

Your qualification

• 3 or more years in a cloud / DevOps role with scripting/automation experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Shell, Python scripting abilities; exposure to the Java/Scala ecosystem a plus
• Experience with common AWS/GCP infrastructure services, designs, and toolchains
• Experience automating infrastructure in an AWS or GCP environment
• Experience with Hadoop/EMR/Cloud Dataproc a plus
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify, isolate, and correct issues end to end
• Even better preventative skills with the desire to continuously build and develop solutions for greater reliability, performance, and supportability
• Familiarity with technologies such as the following; Linux, Bash/Python/Go, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Marathon, Mesos, S3, GCS, etc
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and metrics in a highly dynamic and scaled environment
• Interest in development practices such as source code control, continuous integration/deployment, service discovery, container orchestration and configuration management, especially with respect to how they can be applied to infrastructure

Technologies we use:

• Scala, SBT, Play!, Akka
• Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Zookeeper
• Hadoop, Scalding, Spark
• Kubernetes, BigTable, BigQuery

What we offer

When you work with us, you matter. We ask our employees to make an impact, and feel it is only right to give a lot in return. We offer every employee a generous Pension Plan along with Comprehensive Occupational, Health and Travel Insurance plan, and a mobile phone stipend. We offer generous Paid Time Off and believe if you’re sick, feel like you’re getting sick, or just need a personal day, you should take that time to get better. We enjoy each other's company and love to develop a sense of community so we host meetups, share knowledge and have regular team outings. We hire slow and smart, making sure our office is full of individuals who can teach and learn from one another. The role is based in Oslo - we offer relocation package.

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of First Engineers.