Senior DevOps Engineer

Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables, energy, and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human intelligence. In an ever-changing world, companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience. Our team of over 2,400 experts, operating across 30 global locations, are enabling customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.

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**Wood Mackenzie Values**
- Inclusive - we succeed together
- Trusting - we choose to trust each other
- Customer committed - we put customers at the heart of our decisions
- Future Focused - we accelerate change
- Curious - we turn knowledge into action

**Senior Site Reliability Engineer**

Wood Mackenzie has an exciting opportunity for a **Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)**to join a dynamic global business to help drive change and innovation. We are looking for a skilled senior SRE professional to help us manage and support our products and services within the enterprise.

**Role Purpose**
- Working in partnership with the business and the technology teams, bringing awareness and insight of the different operational constraints / opportunities for projects targeting cloud-based or on-premises deployment.
- Design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud and on-prem resources and environments.
- Fostering a culture of radical candor in cross-functional groups, strictly following SRE best practices within a devops organization.
- Ownership of advanced continuous integration/delivery toolset or the processes, resources, and platforms that use those tools.
- Proactive approach to ensuring service availability as well as detection and prevention of problems.
- Articulate technical and business concepts to different audiences and influence technical decisions with solid metrics collection and proof of concepts.

**Responsibilities**:

- ** Strategic Pipeline Leadership**: Lead design and implementation of efficient and scalable delivery pipelines. Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA, and product managers, to design, develop, implement, and maintain advanced delivery pipelines for efficiency and scalability using tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, and GitHub Actions.
- ** Operational Strategy**: Input into development and implementation of comprehensive operational strategies through identifying operational constraints and opportunities such as auto-scaling, container orchestration, and system resiliency.
- ** Innovative Solutions**: Lead the implementation of advanced solutions to predict and mitigate potential issues. Continuous analysis of data to identify gaps, trends, and areas for improvement.
- ** Tooling Strategy**: Spearhead the creation and maintenance of state-of-the-art tooling solutions, including awareness of new industry trends and how to implement them.
- ** Continuous Improvement Champion**: Lead continuous improvement initiatives.
- ** Mentorship and Coaching**: Provide mentorship to Levels 1 and 2 engineers.
- ** Incident Command**: Act as an active primary incident lead during critical (P1 and P2) incidents.
- ** Documentation and Process Development**: Ensure comprehensive documentation exists, knowledge shares happen regularly, and review of SRE processes/standards.
- ** Autonomous Operation**: Proven ability to work independently with mínimal oversight for the skills and requirements listed below.
- ** On-Call Rotation**: Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation, providing advanced support, responding to system alerts, and incidents to ensure continuous system availability and performance.

**Qualifications**

**Skill Requirements**:

- ** Experience**: Minimum of 4+ years in SRE/DevOps roles.
- ** Agile Leadership**: Extensive experience leading projects in an agile manner.
- ** Expert Cloud Skills**:Deep AWS expertise (Solutions Architect Associate or equivalent knowledge), substantial Azure experience (Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 or equivalent knowledge).
- ** Linux Mastery**: Advanced Linux system administration proficiency (Linux+, RHSA, or equivalent knowledge).
- ** Automation and Innovation**: Proven automation expertise (e.g. Ansible, Salt Stack, Rundeck, and Jenkins), including tool design, configuration, and implementation.
- ** Mentorship and Growth**: Mentor SRE Is and SRE IIs.
- ** Strategic Execution**: Ability to execute strategic operational initiatives.
- ** Troubleshooting**:Utilize tools such dig, tcpdump, grep, nslookup, vim, less, cat, etc.

**Additional Preferred Skills**:

- ** Expert Cloud Management**: Deep expertise in managing la