Senior SRE (GCP)

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting high-throughput systems that serve millions of customers and billions of requests each month. You’ll work on complex hybrid-cloud architectures, with a focus on Kubernetes-based workloads, networking, and monitoring solutions.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: London
Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 per annum
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Hybrid (minimum two days per week in London)

About the Role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting high-throughput systems that serve millions of customers and billions of requests each month. You’ll work on complex hybrid-cloud architectures, with a focus on Kubernetes-based workloads, networking, and monitoring solutions.

You’ll also have the opportunity to drive improvements across cloud deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and cost optimisation while exploring new technologies and automation opportunities. Acting as a subject matter expert in site reliability engineering, you’ll help foster a culture of continuous learning within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure critical systems are highly available, scalable, and resilient.
• Develop and implement SLAs/SLOs/SLIs to enhance system reliability.
• Build tools to improve incident management processes, including alerting mechanisms, runbooks, and auto-resolving solutions.
• Drive innovation by exploring AI tooling and automation to improve SRE capabilities.
• Collaborate with teams to optimise cloud deployments and monitoring solutions.
• Actively participate in postmortems and support rotas to ensure operational excellence.

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking candidates with:

• Proven experience in software development, testing, monitoring, and operational stability at scale.
• Expertise in Kubernetes (ideally microservice architectures using Istio service mesh).
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native solutions (preferably Google Cloud), including storage, networking, and resource provisioning.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog or Dynatrace.
• Proficiency in coding/scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
• A solid understanding of automation best practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing APIs and working with database operations (streaming/batch).

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