Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid in London or Southampton, United Kingdom; 2 days in the office and 3 days remote each week

Company

hirify.global develops AI, cloud, and digital software used by global businesses for customer experience, financial crime prevention, and public safety.

What you will do

• Monitor production availability and take a holistic view of system health.
• Build and operate software and systems for platform infrastructure and applications.
• Measure and optimize system performance, reliability, quality, and time-to-market.
• Provide operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications.
• Gather and analyze operating system and application metrics for performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with development teams on system design, testing, release procedures, capacity planning, automation, and incident response.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in systems engineering, automation, and reliability.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C#, plus Bash or PowerShell scripting.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure as code with CloudFormation or Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems, managing incidents, conducting blameless postmortems, and leading outage response and communication.
• Ability to work in the London or Southampton hybrid setup with two office days per week.

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• Hands-on experience with large Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes certification.
• Experience with the Grafana Observability Suite, including Loki, Mimir, and Tempo.
• Experience with Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, Rundeck, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, or equivalent certification.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global-FLEX hybrid model with three remote workdays and two office days per week.
• Office days emphasize face-to-face meetings, teamwork, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Network Operations.
• Equal opportunity employment environment.