Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title : Site Reliability Engineer

Job Location : Hove, UK (Hybrid 3 days office)

Job Type : FTE

Job Description:

SRE will play a pivotal role in driving the modernization of IT operations by implementing observability practices and automating toil. This position requires a deep understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, modern observability tools, and automation techniques to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency in IT systems. This role requires a strategic thinker with hands\-on expertise who can lead modernization efforts while fostering a culture of reliability and innovation.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Engineering team and implement strategies for modernizing IT operations enhancing observability and toil reduction.


• Architect and deploy observability platforms to monitor system health, performance, and reliability effectively.


• Propose \& drive strategies for AI\-driven alerting and proactive anomaly detection to reduce MTTD \& MTTR.


• Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets.


• Establish \& create AIOPS roadmap for improving operational efficiency.


• Lead efforts to automate repetitive tasks (toil) using scripting, orchestration tools, and AI/ML\-based solutions.


• Drive toil automation initiatives for automated incident responses \& self\-healing automation for achieving autonomous operations.


• Collaborate with cross\-functional teams to ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and maintainable.


• Drive incident management and root cause analysis processes through automation, ensuring continuous improvement to enable autonomous operations.


• Partner with engineering, architecture, and product teams to enable shift\-left engineering practices ensuring reliability.


• Mentor and guide teams on adopting SRE principles and tools.


• Advocate for a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement across the organization.

• Strong expertise in implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.


• Advanced knowledge of establishing observability using tools Dynatrace \& Datadog (primary skills).


• Proficiency in automation \& scripting using Python \& Ansible (primary skills).


• Strong experience with cloud platforms AWS \& Azure (primary skills).


• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.


• Proficiency in cloud native distributed systems \& microservices architecture.


• Exposure to AI/ML techniques for predictive analytics and automated problem resolution.


• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines \& enabling automated release \& deployment engineering solutions.


• Good to have experience with chaos engineering tools like Gremlin or Chaos Monkey and implementing automation frameworks for resilience tracking.


• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects in a fast\-paced environment.


• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively across teams.


• Excellent problem solving, analytical thinking, and adaptability.


• Strategic mindset balancing engineering excellence with business priorities.

• 12\+ years of experience in IT operations, SRE, or DevOps roles.


• Proven track record of SRE experience in implementing observability and automation solutions in large\-scale environments.


• Certifications in cloud platforms, observability tools \& other SRE related areas.

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