Key Work Benefits
We take the health and happiness of our employees seriously and we’re consistently searching for new ways to make mkodo the best place to work. From retirement planning to a wellness offering supporting mental & physical wellbeing.
Remote/Flexible working
Generous Holidays
Tech Scheme
Employee Assist Program
Bonus and Profit Share
Birthday Off
Team Socials
Pension Contribution
The Role - Site Reliability Engineer / SysAdmin
If this is the opportunity you have been waiting for, to work in a fast-paced company with cutting-edge technology, please send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Apply HereKey Skills and Attributes
- Comprehensive knowledge of cloud platforms and technologies: AWS, Azure and Kubernetes
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Linux OS preferably Red Hat and/or Centos and Ubuntu/Debian
- Experience of IAC tools preferably Terraform
- Practical experience of automation and configuration tools preferably Ansible
- Working knowledge of project management tools, JIRA
- Knowledge of CI/CD and source control systems ideally Jenkins and Git.
- Web servers: Apache HTTP, Apache Tomcat, Nginx
- Good communication and planning skills
- Ability to work well as both part of a team and independently, be self-motivated to deliver projects to deadlines
Beneficial
- CCNA or demonstrable knowledge of Cisco equipment and TCP networking
- Administration of communication tools: Office 365, Slack
- Supporting company network infrastructure (Cisco Switches, Firewalls and WAPs)
About the Role
Mkodo is expanding so we are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer possibly from a background in System Administration to join the IT operations department. Our current infrastructure comprises of on-premises and cloud systems and the role will involve building, maintaining and enhancing these environments. In addition, you will be providing support to our internal teams, clients and liaising with our parent company. The role offers an opportunity to progress technically as we continue to grow within part of a larger organization.
Main Responsibilities
- Administration of cloud technologies – AWS, Azure and Kubernetes
- Working directly with clients to help investigate issues raised and delivering fixes within agreed SLAs
- Documenting support and configuration information on our internal knowledge base and documentation published to our clients
- Supporting the development teams in a DevOps capacity, building and maintaining our development, test and staging platforms
- Supporting company production facilities both cloud and physical data centres
- Proactively monitoring systems through our alerting and logging tools
- Managing back-up and data security
- Participation in the on-call rota
More benefits
- Excellent Holiday allowance
- Remote/Flexible Working (4 times a month in the office)
- Quarterly team events
- Performance bonus and profit share scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Travel Loan scheme
- Contributory Pension
- Supplies of fresh fruits, snacks
- Birthday day off
Graduate development journey
Day 1
Grads onboarded as a cohort and focus on specific roles
First 2 weeks
Onboarding sessions and initial training
2 weeks
Grad team project with mentoring support
3 months
Grads present project to execs/senior leadership team. Start more compex project.
6 months
Present second project to the execs/senior leadership team. Grads join a client project team. Tech debt and support issues.
9 months
Start contributing to client deliverables.
12 months
Graduate from Grad scheme and become billable resource.
or send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Recruitment Process
For our web, Android and iOS engineering roles, we follow the below process:
For our roles, we follow the below process:
For our graduate roles, we follow the below process:
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
Technical Exercise
You will be invited to a partake in a Pair Programming session with two of our Engineers, to assess your level of technical and coding abilities
Final Interview
A final meet with our HR team, and a Head of Engineering - also the chance to ask any questions about the role, and what it's like to work at mkodo
Offer
We make an offer to the person we feel most suitable for the role and business
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
Skills Assessment
You will be invited to a second stage in the process to meet with more members of the team, and to show off your skills in your area of expertise. There will be the opportunity to ask any questions, and find out more about the role, and also to discuss your experience in more detail.
Final Interview
A final meet with our HR team, and a Head of Engineering - also the chance to ask any questions about the role, and what it's like to work at mkodo
Offer
We make an offer to the person we feel most suitable for the role and business
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
1-hour interview
You're invited to a second interview with developers you'll work with. It's a no-code whiteboard session to evaluate your problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills. Show us how you tackle challenges!
Offer
We’ll make offers to the successful graduates to join the cohort in early September
or send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Graduate Developer Scheme
mkodo operates its own 4-time, award-nominated graduate developer scheme across London and the Northeast. Check out our grad scheme page to learn more.
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