Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description:

About bp

bp is a global energy business with a purpose to reimagine energy for people and our planet. We aim to be a very different kind of energy company by 2030, helping the world reach net zero and improving people's lives. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. Join bp and become part of the team building our future!

You will work as a member of a high-energy, top-performing team of engineers, working alongside technology leaders to shape the vision and drive the execution of ground-breaking compute and data platforms that make a real impact.

As a senior site reliability engineer, you will be responsible for building, maintaining and operating the software solutions, infrastructure and services that powers technology platforms. In this role, we work with a team of engineers and team members to ensure that the digital solutions are highly available, scalable, and secure and will be responsible for automating routine tasks, improving the solution's performance, and providing technical support to other teams.

• Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale, cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
• Creating automated solutions to improve operational aspects of the site.
• Ensure that applications and websites run smoothly and efficiently.
• Detect issues and automatically managing failures to keep systems up and running.
• Work with software developers, engineers, and operations teams to improve system performance.
• Analyse incidents to prevent future disruptions.
• Develop and maintain standardised solutions that can be reused across multiple teams and projects.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS / Azure cloud engineering, fundamentals, Dev Ops, architect certifications) can be beneficial. Knowledge of networking concepts, protocols, and tools, willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to changing environments.
• Skilled in managing configuration, deployments, observability, handling and resolving incidents, including root cause analysis, managing and operating complex systems for scalability, availability and performance.
• Proficient in communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with development and operations teams.

• Proficient in C# and Type Script; comfortable working across platforms.
• Managed large monorepo's and build systems like Bazel.
• Skilled in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code.
• Familiar with systems design principles.
• Software development experience, ideally in platform or service engineering.
• Familiar with software engineering best practices across the full SDLC coding standards, code reviews, source control, CI / CD, testing, and operations.
• Experience supporting and operating production systems, with exposure to monitoring, logging, alerting, and basic security practices.
• Experience designing and contributing to Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to streamline developer workflows and self-service capabilities.

• Skilled knowledge of Linux / Unix systems, including system configuration, networking, and debugging.
• Expert in building and scaling infrastructure services using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.
• Skilled with infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Istio, EKS, Kafka. Experience in Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, for infrastructure as code, monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and logging systems (e.g., ELK stack).
• Skilled in the understanding of using core cloud application infrastructure services including identity platforms, networking, storage, databases, containers, and serverless.
• Skilful knowledge of databases, such as relational, graph, document, and key-value, including performance tuning and improvement

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

No travel is expected with this role

This role is not eligible for relocation

This position is a hybrid of office / remote working

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