Here at esure Group, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

It’s an opportunity you simply don’t want to miss. You can expect our investment in you to include a highly competitive package, career and development opportunities and flexible benefits built around you and your lifestyle.

esure are currently recruiting for a Junior Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE  team which supports a variety of applications covering front-end, client-facing websites and business-facing applications.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is currently in a support role or application support role with a passion to move into SRE.

DETAILED ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Ensuring required reactive and proactive activities are undertaken to ensure SRE team is contributing to the successful meeting of SLA’s in relation to service availability.
• To provide early input to the business planning process to help decision making and to quickly evaluate the impact of a new business initiatives on the existing underlying application infrastructure platforms and delivery schedule.
• Work with Product Delivery Managers to define and refine working practices between SRE Team and Product teams to increase collaboration and shift to DevOps focused culture.
• Proactively supporting the underlying application infrastructure technology estate reducing service risk, inefficiencies, problems and bugs.
• Responsible for supporting escalated incidents during office hours and out-of-hours support as required to ensure high availability of mission critical systems.
• To build robust relationships with Products, Enterprise Architecture and other Cloud Services areas.
• Proactively supporting the underlying application infrastructure technology estate reducing service risk, inefficiencies, problems and bugs.
• To look for potential improvements to the SRE Team services provided and approach to propose to the SRE Manager.
• Proactively see opportunities to reduce support effort and costs through effective tooling and automation.
• Work allocation & prioritisation, formal/informal reviews, training and career development.
• Mentoring and technical leadership.
• Deputise for SRE Manager from time to time as required.
• Champion DevOps working culture and need for effective collaboration.

• Experience supporting complex cloud and data centre applications
• Proven experience and knowledge of Unix systems
• A deep understanding of monitoring, and experience defining performance indicators and service level objectives
• Knowledge of scripting or coding in bash and python
• Determination to drive changes in support of our goals to improve quality and speed of delivery in a DevOps environment
• Great communication skills

Bonus points: 

• Understanding of Cloud technology (preferred AWS)
• Application support
• UNIX 
• Scripting / coding i.e. bash, python, Java

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 25% discount on esure & Sheila’s Wheels insurance (10% for immediate family) or a guarantee to beat any other insurer’s renewal quote on both home and car insurance
• 15% Discount on esure and Sheila’s Wheels Travel Insurance
• Profit Share 
• Festive Bonus
• Flu Jabs and Eye Care - Free flu jabs every winter, free eye tests every two years and £50 towards VDU glasses

In light of the current Covid-19 pandemic, we want to emphasise to all applicants that the safety and wellbeing of our candidates and colleagues is esure Group’s number one priority. All interviews will be conducted remotely via a video conference platform to ensure that everyone involved is adhering to the social distancing guidance.