Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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ABOUT THE POSITION
At Searchlight Cyber, we have built the world's best Continuous Threat and Exposure monitoring platform. Our technology is trusted by companies worldwide, from innovative startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, and we help to protect hundreds of thousands of assets from compromise.
We are expanding our infrastructure team to optimise costs, improve performance and increase resilience. We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who can help us transition critical services from AWS to colocation data centers, build and maintain bare metal kubernetes clusters and support our reliability engineers in diagnosing and resolving infrastructure challenges.
Occasionally, this role will require you to work outside regular work hours in case of emergencies.
WHAT WILL I DO?
- Migrate selected services from AWS to other data centres.
- Design, deploy and manage bare metal kubernetes cluster.
- Optimise database schemas to improve efficiency.
- Support site reliability engineers in troubleshooting and maintaining infrastructure.
- Enhance monitoring and alerting to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Use IaC.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Strong experience with kubernetes, preferably on bare metal servers.
- Deep knowledge of networking, Linux and infrastructure automation.
- Expertise in colocation planning and managing infrastructure outside of hyperscale providers.
- Familiarity with SRE and DevOps practice to support high development speed and resilience.
- Experience with Python or Golang for automation would be useful.
- Hands on experience of database schema analysis and optimization would also be a benefit.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
Job satisfaction; working for a company that is genuinely making people's lives better and helping to reduce the impact of internet based crime. You will have the opportunity to grow your career with the company in a very exciting industry.
On top of a generous salary in line with your experience, you'll receive a great benefits package and a learning and development plan to help ensure your career always moves in the right direction.
We're a committed team of professionals all from diverse backgrounds - software, data, security, sales and more. We all come together with a real passion for technology and a drive to make a difference - we're committed to protecting society from threats and actors who use and abuse the dark web.
You'll be challenged with interesting projects that will help you think outside the box and have plenty of opportunities to learn and practice new skills. You'll be a key member of the team, directly contributing to our customer and supplier relationships and helping business goals. We believe in training & development, having fun and a great work life balance.
Your benefits package will include:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Entry into company pension scheme
- Private healthcare from Axa, including dental and vision coverage
- We offer both TechScheme and Cycle2Work
- Comprehensive training and support to develop your career, including a training budget
- A range of office perks, including free fresh fruit daily, a bean to cup coffee machine and more
- Regular team building and reward events
INTERVIEW PROCESS
- Screening Call with our Talent Manager
- Short Technical test (role specific)
- Face to face interview with line manager and senior management
- We'd love to meet you in person for an interview, but are happy for a video call too!
- Offer and onboarding