Technical Lead - Site Reliability

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Overview

In Waters, the Informatics group produce software that is used by people worldwide for specialist measurement and scientific analysis.

We are currently seeking an Technical Lead - Site Reliability to lead our Site Reliability Engineering team from a technical perspective to drive enhancements in our adoption of Cloud infrastructure, maintaining monitoring and alerting tooling, and maintain continuous delivery pipelines.

We work in a collaborative, agile environment, where team members are empowered to innovate and continually improve. We believe strongly in the value of personal development, and provide support and dedicated time for our people to pursue this.

What can we offer you?

In addition to salary, we work flexibly and provide 25 days holidays, excellent family friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.

Remote working options are available.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design and maintenance of a “one-click” deployment pipeline using a combination of Terraform and Spinnaker on Kubernetes.
• Lead the design and evolution of a secure, scalable, operationally robust infrastructure (primarily on AWS).
• Drive continuous improvement to the build and deployment process.
• Develop and improve our monitoring and observability tooling.
• Oversee maintenance of the development, staging and production environments and deployments.
• Empower and enable your delivery teammates by helping them help themselves.
• Support production platforms and assisting in incident support
  

Qualifications

What will make you a successful SRE Tech Lead at Waters:

• Experience of technically leading high performing software engineering teams
• Hands on experience of setting up monitoring for critical infrastructure and applications.
• Hands on implementation of monitoring stack for availability and performance, leveraging monitoring tools such as Data Dog, AppDynamics, Nagios etc and configuring alerts for early failure detection.
• Excellent Kubernetes administrative hands-on skills especially managing and maintaining workflows
• Highly experienced in distributed technologies & repos like Github, Bitbucket.
• Excellent understanding of public cloud technologies (API GW, Route53, ACM , RDS/AWS DynamoDB, AWS Redshift, ElasticCache, EKS, AWS Cloudwatch)
• Able to work effectively with various functions (Dev, Platform, Ops & release teams)
• Highly experienced in building continuous integration / delivery pipelines
• Host networking – subnets/routing, firewalls, DNS/DHCP
• Ability to demonstrate the design and support of a robust build, deployment and configuration management system for multi-tier applications
  

The following criteria are desirable, but are not essential since training will be provided for you:

• Agile software development for iterative product delivery
• IoT / GreenGrass
• Knowledge of programming languages such as C#.NET, Java, Python
• Atlassian Jira, Bamboo, Confluence & JFrog Artifactory
• Software security implementation (e.g. OWASP, PKI, X509 Certificates, TLS)
• Software development for regulated environments (e.g. IVD / Medical devices)
  

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world’s leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Waters Wilmslow

People create the Waters difference. By engaging with our talented and diverse workforce we continuously evolve, develop and enhance our products. Being the world’s leading speciality measurement company, we believe in delivering innovative technology and system solutions to our valued customers to enable their success. At Wilmslow, our focus is on the development and delivery of mass spectrometry systems and software in a collaborative and dynamic team environment.

Our mass spectrometers deliver benefit to customers in many industries and make a meaningful impact to our lives through examples such as

• Neo-natal screening to keep babies healthy
• Ensuring consistent, reliable safety in our global food and water supply
• Developing new medicinal therapies to advance human health
• Ensuring participants in the world’s sporting events compete fairly