Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Haystack
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Site Reliability Engineer involves leading the reliability and resiliency of a large AWS ecosystem for a global video game company. The position requires expertise in managing Kubernetes workloads, automating infrastructure, and ensuring high availability for millions of gamers. The engineer will also drive incident response and collaborate with product and security teams to maintain service levels. This is a long-term contract with remote working flexibility within the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead high-severity incident response and troubleshooting for production systems.
- Architect and manage Kubernetes-based workloads at scale using EKS and OpenShift.
- Build and maintain robust event-driven architectures that scale globally.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines using Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in collaboration with product and security teams.
Key Skills:
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS managed services including EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, and multi-account IAM environments.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and Service Mesh.
- Strong mastery of networking fundamentals: DNS, VPC routing, load balancing, TCP/IP, and advanced firewall policies.
- Proven track record of automating deployments and managing infrastructure through code (Terraform/Ansible).
- Leadership mindset with the ability to mentor junior engineers.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We're working with a global pioneer in the video game industry on this exciting opportunity. Scale the systems behind revenue-critical platforms used by millions of gamers worldwide. We are looking for an SRE leader to own reliability and resiliency across a massive AWS ecosystem, driving high-performance engineering in a high-traffic, global-scale environment.
The Role
- Lead high-severity incident response and troubleshooting for production systems, driving post-mortem improvements and long-term platform stability.
- Architect and manage Kubernetes-based workloads at scale using EKS and OpenShift to ensure container orchestration excellence.
- Build and maintain robust event-driven architectures that scale globally while maintaining fault-tolerance and high availability.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines using Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and CDK.
- Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in collaboration with product and security teams to maintain world-class service levels.
What You'll Need
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS managed services including EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, and multi-account IAM environments.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and Service Mesh for managing complex microservices architectures.
- Strong mastery of networking fundamentals: DNS, VPC routing, load balancing, TCP/IP, and advanced firewall policies.
- Proven track record of automating deployments and managing infrastructure through code (Terraform/Ansible) in high-traffic environments.
- Leadership mindset with the ability to mentor junior engineers and influence platform-wide architectural decisions.
What's On Offer
- Long-term 12-month contract with a high probability of extension based on performance.
- 100% Remote working flexibility within the UK.
- The chance to work on world-class gaming infrastructure that supports millions of concurrent users globally.
- Apply via Haystack today!