System Engineer

Systems Engineer | Up to €95,000 + benefits | Relocation and visa support available

We are engaged with a well established global travel technology company, whose platform serves over 100 million users each month, in their search for a Systems Engineer.

The role

You will join the infrastructure function supporting a multi-region environment that spans Google Cloud and the company’s own data centres. Working closely with product engineering teams, you will design and build the platforms and tooling they depend on. You will also lead improvements to how systems are run, deployed and monitored. Successful solutions are rolled out across data centres and cloud regions globally.

Key responsibilities

• Resolve complex system and software issues in a large scale, multi-region environment
• Design and build shared platforms and services consumed by other engineering teams
• Plan and deliver migrations of live production systems
• Identify efficiency gains and automate manual processes
• Advise product teams on infrastructure and architecture decisions

Requirements

• 5 to 7+ years’ experience in a large scale production environment
• Strong knowledge of Linux, cloud technologies and containerised workloads
• Solid understanding of systems architecture and infrastructure, with a DevOps mindset
• Proficiency writing production code, beyond scripting alone
• Excellent communication skills and a proactive, solution oriented approach
• Experience with Google Cloud, software engineering or building reusable platforms would be advantageous. The environment includes Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Prometheus and Kafka.