Principal Sre

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve - providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

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**Job Description**:
Wood Mackenzie has an exciting opportunity for a **Principal SRE focused on AWS Cloud** to join a dynamic global business to help drive change and innovation. We’re looking for a skilled DevOps professional to help us setup a new Wood Mackenzie AWS cloud infrastructure. This includes many accounts, transit gateways, governance, and compliance to be managed as part of this process. We are transitioning as part of a divestiture; we need an experienced person to provide guidance on this process and insight for the future.

**Role Purpose**
- Manage the AWS cloud environment to perform efficiently, effectively, and securely through automation and governance best practices.
- Work in partnership with the business and the technology teams, bringing awareness and insight into the different operational constraints / opportunities for projects targeting cloud-based or on-premises deployment.
- As a principal member of the team, acts as a mentor for the group, provides guidance around design and approach, constructively challenges service design and implementations, exhibits a high degree of autonomy in making decisions over competing priorities, and proposes new solutions and tools to innovate and improve.
- Promotion of mutual feedback in cross-functional groups, following SRE best practices within a DevOps culture.
- A strong focus on service availability and proactive detection of problems.
- Ability to articulate technical and business concepts to different audiences and be able to influence technical decisions with solid metrics collection and proof of concepts

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with cross-functional teams to design and support delivery pipelines for projects living in cloud-based and on-premises environments.
- Provide added value to cross-functional teams by raising awareness of operational constraints and opportunities (i.e., auto-scaling, containerization).
- Ensure full coverage of the live environments from a monitoring, performance, and availability perspective, continuously identifying areas of improvement
- Actively participate in team research & development to bring consistency and improve ease of access and maintenance for our tooling.
- Work with a continuous improvement and forward-thinking mindset, identifying operational processes that could be improved and drafting proposals.
- As a Senior member of the team, acts as a mentor for the group, constructively challenges service design and implementations, exhibits a high degree of autonomy in making a decision over competing priorities, and proposes new roadmap items to innovate and improve.

**Qualifications**:
**Skill Requirements**:

- 10 years experience with SRE/DevOps
- 5+ years experience with AWS cloud design and management, managing multiple accounts, Control Tower, SCPs, Policies, VPCs, etc.
- BS degree in IT/IS/CS or additional equivalent work experience.
- Have worked in an Agile environment supporting multiple software engineering teams for product releases, database and table creation, and monitoring/insight into issues.
- A DevOps mindset; experience in agile processes (Kanban / Scrum) is important, and familiarity with Atlassian JIRA is very welcome.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/Terraform) and a focus on automation.
- Work independently as part of a cross-functional, global team.
- Assist with routine system maintenance.
- Participate in an on-call support rotation every few weeks.

**Additional Preferred Skills**:

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (Associate)
- Proficiency in Kubernetes
- Proficiency in Linux administration (RHEL/Ubuntu)
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible/Salt Stack)
- Experience with programming / scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and PowerShell
- Proficiency with command line tools to quickly triage and fix production issues

Additional Information

Wood Mackenzie is an equal opportunities employer.

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