Junior Site Reliability Engineer

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Location: This role is eligible to be fully remote within the UK or hybrid, with up to 2 in-office days per week at our London office, depending on your proximity.

Early Shift: 6:00am - 3:00pm BST

Cutover’s Collaborative Automation SaaS platform enables enterprises to simplify complexity, streamline work, and increase visibility. Cutover’s automated runbooks connect teams, technology, and systems, increasing efficiency and reducing risk in IT disaster and cyber recovery, cloud migration, release management, and technology implementation. Cutover is trusted by world-leading institutions, including the three largest US banks and three of the world’s five largest investment banks.

We’re looking for a Junior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to add to our UK team. This role is a great fit for individuals early in their career, or transitioning from another specialty into SRE focused work. This is especially true for individuals who are comfortable with self-directed learning such as bootcamps, certifications, or other relevant courses or personal passion projects. This role will report to our SRE Lead.

Our SRE team is responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance levels of our production systems and applications. As a team, we’re committed to constantly improving our engineering culture to maintain a balance between risk and reliability.

What tech stack do we use here at Cutover?

The platform is built on a ReactJS frontend with a Ruby on Rails API, and all hosted on the reliable infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Your role will involve close collaboration with our support and engineering teams. Together, we actively engage in maintaining and optimizing the platform's reliability, utilizing cutting-edge tools and occasionally leveraging in-house software and scripts.

If you're passionate about ensuring the dependability and efficiency of complex systems and thrive in an environment where technologies like React, Ruby, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, and Ansible are at the forefront, we invite you to join our team. Together, let's elevate the reliability of our Cutover Enterprise platform to new heights.

As a Junior SRE, here’s what you’ll be working on:

• Incident Response: Respond to incidents and alerts, triaging urgency and investigating root cause
• Collaboration: Support cross-functional teams during investigations and post-incident reviews
• Root Cause Analysis: Contribute to post-mortems and help identify long-term improvements under guidance
• Observability: Support and enhance observability tools and techniques by identifying metrics, logging, and alerting improvements
• Automation: Write and execute simple automation scripts (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash) to improve reliability and toil reduction
• Documentation: Regular contributions to improve our documentation on system design, troubleshooting, best practices, and engineering processes
• Development: Work on internal tools, pipelines, and IaC solutions to help improve the speed of software delivery and recovery

What we’d like you to bring to the table…

• A genuine excitement for complex problem solving within our tech stack, applying what you know to our unique problems.
• Familiarity with at least one scripting language such as Ruby, Java, Python, Bash
• Exposure to containerization (i.e. Docker) or IaC (e.g. Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation)
• An eagerness to follow modern engineering practices and learn from others
• Introductory experience or coursework involving observability tools such as DataDog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or OpenTelemetry
• Understanding of core networking concepts (DNS, HTTP/S, Load Balancing, etc.)
• A collaborative mindset with clear communication skills
• Willing to ask questions to gain a better understanding of new or complex concepts

Nice to haves…

• Exposure to major incident response processes
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or hands-on experience with cloud environments

Please note that this role involves a rotating on-call schedule, which will require occasional evening and weekend availability.

The good stuff…

• We're excited to offer Share Options as part of our compensation package.
• 25 days of PTO per year + public holidays, and we want you to take all of them!
• 3 volunteer days to use for any charitable/voluntary cause you would like.
• A top-tier private health insurance package.
• Aviva pension scheme.
• Work from home stipend
• A personal learning and development budget through Learnerbly. You’ll be supported in your quest for knowledge, whatever that looks like to you.
• If you’re thinking of starting or growing your family, then you’ll be in great company - more than half of our team are parents and we’ve built a globally consistent parental leave approach that we’re proud of.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• Safeguarding the mental health of our teams is paramount for us. If you’d like to, then you’ll be able to avail yourself of multiple Cutover mental health initiatives, from fully subsidised therapy sessions to subscriptions to leading wellbeing platforms.

Target compensation package: £35,000 - £50,000 + stock options + benefits. 

The final offer may vary from the target compensation package, taking into consideration factors such as your experience level and skill set.  If we aren't aligned on salary at this stage, we’d still love to hear from you to better understand if there are more suitable opportunities at Cutover.

Diversity Statement - Empowering Our Teams

We encourage our team to bring their authentic selves to work, which we have found has strengthened workplace relationships and fostered a genuine sense of community.

If you are excited by this role, we invite you to apply! Even if your profile doesn’t check all the boxes, please don't simply scroll past! We recognize that talent lies everywhere and that some demographic groups are more likely to apply for a "stretch role" than others. We are always open to different perspectives and professional backgrounds to keep Cutover's culture evolving and to ensure that we never stop learning. 

Cutover is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Maintaining an equitable hiring process is imperative to our mission. All applicants are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, protected veteran or parental status.

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