Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global develops a global data collaboration network that supports responsible data collaboration for brands, retailers, financial services providers, and healthcare innovators, including marketing AI use cases.

What you will do

• Provision, configure, maintain, and support production and internal environments for global products.
• Provide 24/7 first-line engineering support through a globally distributed follow-the-sun model, including incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and preventive remediation.
• Monitor and improve system health, availability, performance, and reliability through observability, alerting, and operational practices.
• Develop automation, CI/CD pipelines, operational runbooks, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform and support containerized workloads and Kubernetes platforms.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, DevOps, QE, Security, and Product teams on production readiness, architecture reviews, operational excellence, and reliable delivery.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Production Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, production infrastructure operations, distributed systems, high availability, scalability, and reliability engineering.
• Hands-on experience with a public cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Practical experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized applications with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages, including operational automation.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar platforms.
• Strong incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills; ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and take ownership.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and provide operational support in a 24/7 follow-the-sun model.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within a global SRE and Engineering organization.
• Collaboration with engineering teams based in California, Paris, Nantong, Singapore, Australia, and other global locations.
• Opportunity to learn modern SRE and cloud engineering practices while contributing to engineering standards and supporting junior team members.
• Operational work includes 24/7 support coverage through a globally distributed follow-the-sun model.

Hiring process

• hirify.global uses automated decision systems as part of recruitment and hiring.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates who require them due to a disability or other protected characteristic.
• Recruitment agencies are not accepted; unsolicited agency resumes should not be forwarded.