Site Reliability Engineer

Commercial Technology & Change 

Permanent | Full Time

White City, London | Hybrid* (1-2 days a week)

Hiring Range: £70,000 - £85,000

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution. 

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people. 

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

 Your impact sends ripples.

 The team

Millions of people use the products we build. We're customer focused, informed by data and have a product mindset, using state-of-the-art cloud-first technology. Iterating and evolving daily. In a fast-changing world, we not only make sure our systems work effectively but our Technology teams are spearheading the transformation to a digital-first business. There’s never been a more exciting time to join us. 

As part of the Advanced Advertising Technology team, the focus is  on data analytics, monetisation and financial governance. When you join us, you enter a fun working environment with opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

The role

We are currently looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join ITV’s Commercial Technology and Change team. 

You’ll be joining a recently kick-started engineering initiative that’s developing cloud-centric engineering products that are re-imagining ITVs advertising business. You will also play a key role in shaping and growing our inclusive engineering culture. 

 The role will entail but not be limited to:

• Help to define, implement and monitor the stability, efficiency and performance of our application stack
• Develop tooling to gather heuristics and metrics across the environment and implement improvements
• Use your knowledge of DevOps practices alongside software engineering principles to contribute towards our codebase and automate your changes
• Capture useful events in our observability platform (DataDog) to better understand the application and how it’s performing
• Have a role in defining and enabling a good engineering culture
• Contribute to platform infrastructure design, improvements and deployments
• Follow best DevOps and DevSecOps practices, to ensure successful delivery, observability, operation and security of software in production
• Work with test and operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Embed yourself into engineering scrum teams, supporting their platform and site reliability requirements

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Substantial experience with AWS specifically with Serverless/SaaS technologies (Lambda, Eventbridge, AppSync, Step Functions, ECS, API Gateway)
• Confident in Infrastructure as code frameworks (Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines solutions
• Knowledge of application monitoring solutions (such as DataDog) and using data to troubleshoot issues
• Experience providing guidance and recommendations as part of the decision-making process 
• Experience in the full software development lifecycle 

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Knowledge and experience of agile/lean processes and methodologies.
• Familiarity with Node.JS, GraphQL, JavaScript
• Use and integration of source control systems

ITV is for everyone. 

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com. 

Find out more about applying with a disability. 

* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
  

More about our benefits 

Closing date: 6th December 2024