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MongoDB Site Reliability Engineer
£37,000 - 68,500
Anson Mccade
Stuart Street, Manchester
£37,000 - 68,500
Requirements
Must:
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or MongoDB administration within complex environments
- Strong MongoDB knowledge, including replica sets, sharding, backups, shell usage, and performance tuning
- Practical experience writing automation scripts in Python or Bash
- Experience with Percona, ClusterControl, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration/automation tools (Ansible, Chef) is highly valued
- Monitoring experience using Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack
- Exposure to Kubernetes or containerised environments
- Understanding of API development (FastAPI) and scalable, high-performance system design
Responsibilities
- Provide advanced technical support to maintain and enhance the stability of critical systems
- Execute preventative maintenance activities and leverage monitoring tools to detect, address, and prevent incidents
- Analyse logs, metrics, and user reports to identify root causes and deliver timely resolutions
- Develop automation solutions to reduce manual effort and optimise system operations
- Enhance monitoring, alerting thresholds, and observability to ensure issues are detected and acted on quickly
- Maintain detailed documentation and contribute to knowledge repositories for future reference and improved self-service
- Support capacity management, business continuity, and performance tuning across MongoDB environments
- Identify risks and recommend improvements to strengthen reliability and operational controls
- Work with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality support and improvements
- Provide input into policy development, process enhancements, and technical direction
- Communicate technical issues and solutions clearly to varied audiences, including senior stakeholders
Description
We are excited to offer an opportunity for a MongoDB Site Reliability Engineer to join our high-performing infrastructure and engineering function in Manchester. In this permanent role, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and resilience of our large-scale, business-critical systems. We value individuals who thrive in complex environments, enjoy solving multifaceted challenges, and are passionate about automation, observability, and continuous improvement. This position comes with a competitive salary ranging from £50,000 to £64,000 GBP and a bonus structure, along with the flexibility of hybrid working.
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