Site Reliability Engineer
An exciting opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer to join an award-winning, Cambridge-based AI software company at the forefront of machine learning innovation.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing cloud infrastructure, monitoring systems, and deployment processes, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of a sophisticated machine learning platform deployed across cloud environments.
Location: Cambridge, hybrid working model – 3 days in office – not easily reachable via public transport from London
Salary: £40,000 - £60,000 per annum, depending on experience
Requirements for Site Reliability Engineer:
- Minimum 2:1 degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Solid commercial experience in a DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or similar role
- Experience configuring and using monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP (Azure or AWS also considered)
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform
- Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Strong understanding of cloud security and reliability best practices
- Scripting experience using Python and/or Bash
- Experience using Git within a professional software development environment
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a proactive mindset
Desirable:
- Experience responding to and investigating security or reliability incidents in distributed cloud environments
- Ability to communicate technical challenges to non-technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with technologies such as NGINX, Flask (Python), React (TypeScript), PostgreSQL,
- OpenSearch, Valkey, or Keycloak
- Experience administering Linux-based systems
- Experience with CI tools such as CircleCI
- Exposure to information security compliance standards (e.g. ISO 27001)
- Experience working within Agile development environments
Responsibilities for Site Reliability Engineer:
- Develop and enhance monitoring systems to proactively identify performance, reliability, security, and cost issues
- Monitor platform performance and communicate insights to engineering teams
- Support incident response and assist with remediation of platform vulnerabilities
- Identify, plan, and implement improvements to cloud infrastructure and deployment processes
- Work closely with engineering teams to support product development and platform scalability
- Ensure infrastructure and deployments are secure, robust, and aligned with best practices
- Advocate for effective monitoring and reliability considerations throughout the development lifecycle
- Support ongoing compliance with information security standards, including ISO 27001
What this offers:
- Working for an award-winning AI software company at the forefront of machine learning innovation
- A hands-on SRE role with exposure to modern cloud-native technologies and infrastructure
- The opportunity to work on complex, real-world problems within industrial R&D environments
- A collaborative, high-calibre engineering team within a growing Cambridge-based business
- A competitive salary and benefits package
Applications:
If you are a Site Reliability Engineer looking to develop your career within a cutting-edge AI company, we would love to hear from you. Please send an up-to-date CV via the relevant link.
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Keywords: Site Reliability Engineer / SRE / DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer / Cloud Engineer / Kubernetes / Docker / Terraform / GCP / AWS / Azure / Grafana / Prometheus / CI/CD / Python / Bash / Infrastructure Engineer
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