Site Reliability Engineer; SRE
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
UK
Listed on 2026-06-20
UK
Listing for:
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Full Time, Remote/Work from Home
position Listed on 2026-06-20
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Title:
Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Observability
Location:
Reading, UK / Hybrid & Remote Options
About the Role
We are looking for a Lead SRE to design, scale, and operate massive-scale observability systems that keep our global services online and performant. You will join an autonomous team of software engineers focused on solving complex data infrastructure challenges.
Key Responsibilities
Scale Prometheus metrics infrastructure to handle 100+ million active series.
Operate large Elasticsearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.
Grow high-throughput Kafka data pipelines processing hundreds of thousands of events per second.
Build custom alerting workflows and self-service APIs for internal engineering teams.
Provision cloud and private infrastructure using Terraform.
Requirements
5+ years operating mid-to-large distributed systems on Linux VMs or bare-metal machines.
2+ years developing in Go, Python, Ruby, Scala, or Bash.
Hands-on experience with Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Kafka, the ELK stack, Ansible, or Consul.
Comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases and participating in an on-call rotation.
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