Position Overview & Specifications

Global OTT Technology Working at Sky as part of the Discovery and SDP Site Reliability Engineering teams is an exciting way to develop and improve your skills across a broad technology stack on multiple cloud providers. Your contributions while working with development and other engineering teams will enable better visibility of preferred content for our customers, improving retention and happiness while enabling better insight for our Business” - Sean Watson, Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager What you'll do: You will be responsible for defining and managing the objectives of a team to support delivery of software, balanced with the operational readiness, resiliency, and quality standards of the OTT Reliability Engineering team.
  • Collaborate with development, architecture and other teams to provide a path to production that supports development and Reliability objectives.
  • Implement infrastructure as code, monitoring as code, everything as code.
  • Engage with teams to improve resilience, conduct formal operational readiness reviews of proposed software designs, controls, and develop test plans.
  • Perform incident analysis, provide recommendations and drive continuous improvement of the systems within your remit.
  • Advise engineers and engineering managers in the development of safer and more defensible software.
  • Develop and improve the capabilities of your team, allowing them to deliver better solutions and become experts in their chosen areas of focus.
What you'll bring: Demonstrate a breadth of experience in technology architecture, design, and development.
  • Solid background in System Administration/architecture in the cloud (GCP)
  • Good background in Configuration and management of large-scale platforms. (Terraform, Virtualization, Cloud, Unix, Java, Puppet, No SQL Databases, Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Solid background in monitoring and logging of large-scale platforms. (Nagios, Prometheus, Splunk, Icinga, etc.)
  • Demonstrable experience of implementing change to enforce high availability on large scale platforms. (Eg: Circuit breakers, Fail Fast/Silent/Stubbed Fallback etc.)
  • Strong Scripting knowledge (Ansible, JavaScript, Shell, C) with some of the following protocols Web/HTTP, Java, Java-Web, Web Services
  • Understanding of Agile and deep understanding of Dev Ops Practices. e.g. Continuous Delivery
The Rewards: There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our outstanding range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few examples:
  • Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
  • A generous pension package
  • Private healthcare
  • Discounted mobile and broadband
  • Access a wide range of outstanding Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work: We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our outstanding office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home. We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process. Your office base: Osterley: Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon. Inclusion: We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for growing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation. At Sky, we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more passionate about who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working. So we're happy to discuss flexible working. We don’t just look at your CV. We’re more passionate about who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky, and we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.