Site Reliability Engineering Manager

SUMMARY:
A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Site Reliability Engineering Manager to build, lead and manage the SRE and IT Telescope Operations Team. Operations and Service management. Computing and Software operations and service framework.

POSITION INFO:
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• BTech/ Degree/ Masters/ PHD in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related fields
• BTech in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related fields coupled with 13 years relevant working experience; or
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related fields coupled with 9 years relevant working experience; or
• Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related fields coupled with 7 years relevant working experience; or
• PHD in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related fields coupled with 5 years relevant working experience.
• Computer and network infrastructure implementation
• IT service, operations and management, including significant responsibility over Service Level Agreements
• IT Infrastructure or software Team leadership
• IT Architecture and Governance
• Project management
• IT systems engineering, application support, and user management
• IT governance and security
• Data governance and security
• IT availability, resilience and redundancy
• Systems analysis, design and engineering
• Experience in supporting distributed software systems in a production environment such as Cloud and/or Data Centres
• Procurement and IT asset management
• Track record of building and managing high-performance teams in a Software, IT or Technology related industry or organisation.
• Experience in asset lifecycle management and software asset management.
• Experience in managing resources and prioritisation.
• Knowledge and background with IT Service Management disciplines and Frameworks such as ITIL and Change Management.
• Experience of Lean Agile project management.
• Experience of working in a globally diverse team.
• Programming/scripting experience and capability across multiple platforms.

• Experience working with Linux and within the Open Source Software Ecosystem
• Experience with DevOps tools, processes and culture.
• Experience and/or certification and knowledge in SRE, ITIL or related IT Management processes.
• Experience supporting and maintaining large-scale High-Performance Computing (HPC) and storage systems.
• Advanced experience with programming and/or scripting languages such as Python.

• Certification in Project management
• Experience in agile project management e.g. SAFe, Scrum.
• Demonstrate interest in astronomy and understanding of the challenges of controlling telescopes similar to SKA.
• Strong Leadership Quality
• Strategic thinker
• Problem solving skills