About the Role
We are looking for a Lead SRE to design, scale, and operate massive-scale observability systems that keep our global services online and performant.
You will join an autonomous team of software engineers focused on solving complex data infrastructure challenges.
Key Responsibilities
- Scale Prometheus metrics infrastructure to handle 100+ million active series.
- Operate large Elasticsearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.
- Grow high-throughput Kafka data pipelines processing hundreds of thousands of events per second.
- Build custom alerting workflows and self-service APIs for internal engineering teams.
- Provision cloud and private infrastructure using Terraform.
Requirements
- 5+ years operating mid-to-large distributed systems on Linux VMs or bare-metal machines.
- 2+ years developing in Go, Python, Ruby, Scala, or Bash.
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Kafka, the ELK stack, Ansible, or Consul.
- Comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases and participating in an on-call rotation.
Keywords
- Observability
- Monitoring
- SRE
- Site Reliability Engineering
- DevOps
- ElasticSearch
- ELK
- Prometheus
- Kafka
- Terraform
- Linux
- Bare Metal
Rate:
£60/hour
Location:
United Kingdom
IR35 Status:
Not specified
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior