Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud/AWS): Running production environments through monitoring and holistic system health, building platform infrastructure and applications, and improving reliability, quality, and time-to-market with an accent on distributed systems troubleshooting, automation, and incident management. Focus on performance tuning, capacity planning, and partnering with development teams to strengthen testing and release procedures.

Location: United Kingdom (London, Southampton)

Company

hirify.global develops software products used by global businesses to deliver customer experiences, fight financial crime, and ensure public safety.

What you will do

• Run production by monitoring availability and maintaining a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market across a suite of distributed software applications.
• Measure and optimize system performance using metrics from operating systems and applications.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering, including incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Automate and uplift services while balancing delivery speed with service level objectives.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in a similar role focused on systems engineering, automation, and reliability.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C#) and experience with scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell).
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms and reliability constraints (e.g., AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Strong CI/CD knowledge and experience with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) plus monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch).

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• Hands-on experience with large Kubernetes clusters and relevant certifications.
• Experience with Grafana Observability Suite (Loki, Mimir, Tempo).
• Experience with monitoring/automation tools such as Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, Rundeck.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• AWS or Google Cloud DevOps certifications (or equivalent).

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global-FLEX hybrid model: 2 days in the office and 3 days remote each week.
• Office days emphasize face-to-face meetings and collaborative problem-solving.
• Role is an Individual Contributor position reporting into the Director, Network Operations.