Site Reliability Engineer

Company Description

Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories - from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, "whatever makes them pink".

lastminute.com is part of lm group, publicly traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel related products and services.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment of inclusion across race, gender, age sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

Job Description

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with certified experience as SRE for our Technology department.

The site Reliability Engineer will work toward a Platform decentralized model to enable the team’s autonomy and ensure the right governance and compliance level.

Key Responsibilities

  • As Site Reliability Engineers we are responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, and incident response of the platform and services running on multiple environments.
  • Improve and evolve the current Self-Service Capabilities for developers
  • Actively contribute to defining common processes  like Cloud governance, new technologies adoption, cost management and optimization
  • Collaborate closely with architects, developers, and database administrators to handle the reliability and scalability of the infrastructure.
  • Administer and provision part of infrastructure through IAC (Terraform) 
  • Support teams on legacy stack migrations to AWS
  • Support teams on SLI/SLO/SLA definition and related implementation
  • Participate in periodic on-call duties

Qualifications

Essential

  • + 4 years experience as DevOps/SRE
  • Strong experience and knowledge of AWS and related Governance
  • Strong knowledge  of Docker and Orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes, EKS)
  • Experience working in microservices-based architectures
  • Strong understanding of configuration management tools like Ansible and IAC tools (Terraform) and their best practices.
  • Good knowledge and hands-on experience using  Continuous delivery and deployment tools like GitlabCI, Spinnaker or similar (CircleCI / GoCD / Github Actions …)
  • Knowledge of tooling such as Helm, Gitlab CI, Terraform, Gitlab, Vault etc.
  • Familiarity and understanding of change management and incident management processes

Desirable

  • Experience in Tech Travel companies
  • Good Knowledge of languages like Go, Python 
  • Certifications in one of above described fields
  • Good understanding of hybrid cloud architecture
  • Experience in the programming language Java

Abilities/qualities 

  • Good communication skills, written and verbal     
  • Enthusiasm to learn new technologies
  • Attitude to teamwork and ability to work

Additional Information

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

  • Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
  • Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
  • Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
  • Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning 
  • Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
  • Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
  • Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
  • Benefit from employee discounts on travel
  • Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
  • Receive a voucher after some years in the company
  • Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
  • Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
  • Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave according to local laws
  • Welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) where you will find dedicated discounts with more than 1500 partners