Site Reliability Technical Lead

Location: Remote from the United Kingdom

Salary: £80,000–£90,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops MIS and school management tools used by more than 7,000 schools and trusts.

What you will do

• Define and guide system architecture, balancing scalability, maintainability, security, and delivery speed.
• Improve platform reliability, performance, efficiency, observability, and adherence to Service Level Objectives.
• Lead incident response and Root Cause Analysis, while optimizing incident management practices.
• Drive automation, infrastructure improvements, production readiness, and operational toil reduction.
• Lead technical estimation, feasibility assessments, release planning, and post-release reviews.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering for complex, scalable systems.
• Advanced expertise with AWS, distributed cloud architectures, distributed systems, microservices, and resilience patterns.
• Experience operating platforms handling approximately 1,000 requests per second.
• Advanced Terraform and configuration management skills, plus proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as DataDog or Prometheus, incident management, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and support the growth of other engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with chaos engineering and reliability testing.
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks.
• Background in agile and lean methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Open-source or SRE community contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements and a dedicated wellbeing team.
• 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• Life assurance at three times annual salary, private dental insurance, pension, and enhanced parental leave.
• Virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, health checks, and financial wellbeing services.
• Professional development training budget and one paid volunteering day each year.
• Social committees and team, office, and company-wide events.

Hiring process

• Phone screen.
• First-stage interview.
• Second-stage interview.

Visa sponsorship is not available.