Site Reliability Engineering Team Lead

About GBG

GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most. 

Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers. 

Why you should be@GBG

Reach

The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries, share great customer experiences and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there, because we understand global addresses better than anyone else.

This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location In the race to serve global customers, we exist to help every business in the world, reach every customer in the world. 

Trust

When a digital business grows, most customers are genuine. However, many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent, because we understand identity better than anyone else.

This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers, reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity, Fraud, trust is key, so the more you can know and the earlier you know it, the better decisions you can make.

About the team

Site Reliability Engineering within Documents & Biometrics are responsible for ensuring GBG delivers a world-class experience for all our customers and team members globally.

The Site Reliability Engineering Team is a 2nd line technical function, providing a gateway service between 1st line Customer Support and Technology 3rd line Engineering for supported products and services consumed by GBG Customers. The team is formed of customer-orientated, product knowledgeable, process driven and technically skilled professionals. Their purpose is to proactively support, maintain, and monitor live service to identify, prevent and resolve customer impacting issues; whilst providing a feedback loop to engineering to ensure continual service improvement for an outstanding customer service experience.

The role

The role of the Site Reliability Engineering Team Lead is to provide people management, technical leadership for GBG Documents & Biometrics production systems 24/7/365 (outside of core working hours), ensuring customer impacting incidents and problems are resolved quickly, thoroughly, and professionally.

As a lead in 2nd line application support you will have a deep understanding of GBG Documents & Biometrics products, applications and components hosted within our cloud environments. You will lead the implementation of monitoring to ensure high levels of observability to protect service availability and service performance for customer user journeys, as well as responding to system events, trends, and alerts. You will be responsible for the work activity, skills, and capability of the Site Reliability Engineering team.

What you will do

• As a people manager, you will be responsible for performance management and development of your team and resourcing where required.
• Take a leading role to a best-in-class 2nd line application and operational support service to GBG 1st line Customer Support and GBG Documents & Biometrics 3rd line Product Delivery functions.
• Co-ordinate a 24/7/365 (outside of core working hours) support service and participate in a call out rota to protect GBG Documents & Biometrics products and customers against service outages and degradation.
• Troubleshooting system and customer impacting incidents, effectively utilising logs, and information from multiple sources to identify root causes, restoring service via a fix or workarounds, and where needed escalating to 3rd line teams.
• Proactively analyse incident and monitoring trends to identify availability and performance risks to services, including improvement opportunities.
• Deliver observability of our platforms by implementing and maintaining monitoring tooling, creating monitors, dashboards and alerts ensuring service performance is accurately measured to achieve SLOs and customer SLAs.
• Ensure maintenance of a knowledge base, including the creation of technical documentation where required.
• Maintain application and service configurations, adhering to GBG Change Control process and deployment procedures.
• Contribute to service design and implementation of best practice to ensure successful transition of new products and services into production systems.
• Maintain availability and security operations to agreed standards schedules.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure technical, operational, and customer support needs are met.
• Continually develop skills, competencies, and knowledge to support your personal development, a self-starter.
• Be a customer champion – proactive in recommending client enhancements to promote growth, retention, and customer satisfaction.

What are we looking for

Essential Skills:

• Experienced in a Site Reliability, Technical Operations, or Application Support role.
• Good experience of bespoke business solutions and products, including the ability to demonstrate and troubleshoot the relationship between business customer services and underpinning technology components (web, Middleware/Applications, Databases, Infrastructure) and data flows.
• Excellent application of support process, including Incident, Problem, Request, Event and Change Management.
• Excellent application of technical troubleshooting, procedures, technical knowledge and personal skillset to rapidly resolve issues.
• Excellent understanding of observability solutions, and deployment, integration and configuration of operational monitoring tooling to capture events to inform performance objectives (SLOs/SLAs & APM, Synthetics, Web, Infrastructure etc).
• Good experience supporting Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google), cloud native technologies (Kubernetes, PaaS services) and operating systems (Windows and/or Linux).
• Good experience querying cloud hosted databases (RDS, Azure SQL and others).
• Performance driven to ensure business and technology can be evidenced against agreed SLAs, SLOs and relevant customer metrics.
• Experience of Release and Deployment Tooling (Azure DevOps).
• Experience of scripting and automation (Terraform, PowerShell).
• Experience adhering to security standards and securing systems (ISO27001, PCI-DSS, SSL & encryption, WAF & attack protection).
• Experience of ITIL operational support working practices.
• Understanding of QA test and Development coding practices.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of Release and Deployment Tooling
• Experience adhering to security standards and technologies operations (ISO27001/PCI, SSL, encryption, DDoS)
• Experience of QA test and Development coding practices
• Experience of Agile delivery working practices

Behaviours we'd like to see

To find out more

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we’ll be in touch. You can also check out our career site here.

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