Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid work model required

Company

hirify.global provides financial data, analytics, and software solutions for investment professionals and financial organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability and availability of production systems.
• Respond to incidents, perform post-mortems, and implement measures to prevent recurrence.
• Define and track Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators.
• Collaborate with development teams to build reliability into services from the beginning.
• Design automation that reduces operational toil and improves efficiency.
• Support capacity planning, performance optimization, documentation, runbooks, and the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience deploying, managing, troubleshooting, and administering Kubernetes workloads and clusters.
• Strong knowledge of Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Ingress, Kubernetes networking, storage, and security.
• Experience with Helm for application packaging and deployment.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, CI/CD tooling, monitoring and observability, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and scripting or programming.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant field.
• Fluent English required in verbal and written communication; willingness to work in a hybrid model required.

Nice to have

• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Familiarity with the SRE principles described in the Google SRE handbook.
• Previous experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Blameless incident response culture.
• Focus on continuous learning and improvement.
• Collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
• Participation in an on-call rotation supporting critical systems.