Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 4LS, Northern Ireland, UK

Listing for: Ocho

Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-09-08

Job specializations:

IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, Systems Engineer, IT Project Manager, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Ocho are working with a client to find a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead the team responsible for keeping their platform running reliably and securely, 24/7. Our client helps thousands of teams in 60+ countries monitor and improve their applications, and is remote-first, valuing impact, transparency and continuous improvement. The role This is a player-coach position.

You'll set the technical direction and own reliability and security strategy for the platform, while staying hands-on with the systems your team runs. It's a small team with a long-standing habit of fixing root causes, not just alerts, and they're now growing it as the business scales. Their stack Mostly bare-metal infrastructure, managed by Ansible Data ingestion and processing in Rust, running on Kafka A Rails app serving the customer-facing UI MongoDB, Click House and Elastic Search Responsibilities Lead the SRE team: set priorities, mentor engineers, grow the team Own reliability strategy and the long-term infrastructure roadmap Be part of the on-call rotation, and keep improving it Act as incident coordinator, and lead blameless postmortems Guide strategic projects, including new AWS infrastructure Stay hands-on: tune the Rust codebase and infrastructure automation Handle security researcher reports, coordinate penetration tests, support ISO renewals What you bring 8+ years keeping large Linux systems reliable, with experience leading an SRE, platform or infrastructure team (formally or as a technical lead).

Competent developer across multiple languages, ideally with Rust and Ansible experience. Strong incident response and postmortem experience, comfortable translating business growth into infrastructure strategy. Bonus: AWS, Kubernetes and Docker. What's on offer Competitive salary Remote-first culture - UK wide Stock options, Flexible PTO Personal development budget. Please apply now if you are meeting the above criteria or contact Andrew Harrison directly.

Skills:

Rust Ansible Kafka Rails MongoDB Click House Elasticsearch Benefits:
Work From Home