Devops jobs in United Kingdom

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior SRE to join our team, reporting to the Engineering Manager of the Data Platform Engineering SRE team. As a Senior SRE, you will be responsible for operating the systems supporting our data-oriented teams (Kubernetes, >6PB Hadoop, OpenSearch, Airflow, Superset, Kafka, etc), helping design and implement new systems and solutions, and ensuring that our systems scale to meet demand. In this role, you will interact with our client teams, support them in whatever adventure they are on, investigate incidents, and migrate services to Kubernetes.

• Simplifying our operations by standardizing how we deploy services and how we benefit from virtualizing and containerizing our applications
• Supporting our users, removing roadblocks, and making them more productive!
• Monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance, and resource utilization
• Proactively identifying sources of instability in distributed systems and analyzing how complex systems fail from a reliability and resilience perspective
• Automation and streamlining of tasks, as well as identifying process gaps
• Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team (don’t worry if you have never worked remotely, we’ll help you get used to it)
• Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
• Expected to travel domestically or potentially internationally 2-3 times a year for team gatherings and conferences

• 5+ years of experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps or software engineering role
• Experience with running applications and services at scale
• Proficiency with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
• Comfort with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform etc.)
• Communicative technical English
• Virtualization of data and compute

• Share our values, appreciate our code of conduct, support our team norms, and work in accordance with all three
• Customer‑oriented. We’re here to help, not to block.

• Comfortable working in the open
• Passionate about supporting our communities

• Experience with Kubernetes and Ceph
• Experience with operating a data platform

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote‑first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries *. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 113,082 to US$ 175,725 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

• Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay. Our non‑US employees are hired through a local third‑party Employer of Record (EOR).

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at hr@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839‑6885.