Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Data Retention

The driving force behind our award-winning Data Retention platform at Mimecast

Dive into the forefront of innovation with our Data Retention engineering team, taking on the crucial Operations role to help us develop operational aspects of our archiving and security software and its associated platforms. Our team works with cutting edge solutions that empower Mimecast customers to Work Protected™ at large scale.

Why Join Our Team?

“If you are interested in solving and tackling complex problems with ingenuity and implement new ideas to build and scale reliable, high performing software in private and public cloud environments, then data retention team is for you, where we deal with Data ingestion, backup and search for our e-discovery and compliance customers” – Hiring Manager

What You’ll Do

As a Site Reliability Engineer within the Data Retention and managed services team, you’ll play an integral role in ensuring our code, tools, and deployments are consistent, high quality, and continually optimized.  Your responsibilities will include:

• Implement Jenkins pipelines with modern CI/CD workflows.
• Create properly tuned alerts and dashboards to effectively monitor infrastructure and service health in production.
• Champion and leverage Infrastructure as Code technologies as a way of life.
• Contribute strongly to cloud migration efforts, bringing more and more capabilities into our standard AWS infrastructure.
• Write scripts and automated tests to ensure the resilience and quality of Mimecast solutions.
• Manage Services/servers on private cloud and tune them to be reliable and scalable.
• Configuring and tuning Postgres instances for high availability and security hardening.
• Innovate and champion improvements in QE and CI/CD processes and tools.

What You’ll Bring

• Domain experience in Quality Engineering and/or DevOps/SRE
• Understanding of CI/CD principles, automation technologies, and associated tools and how to optimize them for Private and public cloud.
• Hands-on experience deploying, scaling, monitoring, and maintaining services in AWS.
• Experience with configuring, managing, scaling and monitoring of services running on Linux based servers.
• Solid scripting/automation experience, with command of two or more scripting languages used for SRE/DevOps and/or Test Automation.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills that enable you to work effectively across teams.
• Bias for action and problem solving – eagerness to take initiative and make things happen.

What We Bring

Join our Data Retention and Managed Services team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast is on a path of steady and healthy growth as a company, investing in people like you who bring the skills and expertise to raise our technical expertise, operational maturity, and customer success to the next level.  Your contributions are important!  Every voice and action matters.

Mimecast offers formal and on-the-job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly – opportunities to work with cross-functional teams to build your knowledge!

We believe in “growth that’s good”, we have a “culture that cares”, and we are on a “mission that matters”.

Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance, and learning.
• Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams
• Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm.

• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!

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DEI Statement

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.