Aceolution
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer – Observability
We are seeking an [experienced Lead/Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability] to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating large-scale observability platforms that underpin mission-critical cloud services. This role involves architecting highly scalable monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry systems while collaborating closely with software engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams.
About the Role
This opportunity is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex infrastructure challenges, working with large-scale distributed systems, and building resilient cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and highly available observability platforms.
- Build and operate enterprise-scale monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
- Design and optimise Prometheus-based monitoring architectures for large-scale environments.
- Deploy and manage high-performance Elasticsearch clusters for decentralised log storage and analytics.
- Build and maintain high-throughput event streaming pipelines using Kafka.
- Develop self-service APIs, libraries, and tools to enable engineering teams in managing observability.
- Automate infrastructure deployment using Terraform under the purview of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Partner with engineering teams to enhance system reliability, monitoring capabilities, and operational excellence.
- Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement long-term preventive solutions.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to diagnose and address production disruptions.
- Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across cloud platforms.
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Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 5+ years designing, deploying, and operating medium-to-large-scale distributed systems on Linux environments (Debian, Ubuntu, etc).
- Minimum 2+ years of programming expertise in one or more of the following:
- Go
- Python
- Ruby
- Scala
- Bash
- Deep understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and best practices.
- Experience building and supporting highly available cloud infrastructure.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional environments.
Technical Skills (Preferred Expertise)
Familiarity with at least several of the following:
- SRE & Observability (Monitoring, Logging, Alerting)
- Prometheus, Thanos, Cortex, Grafana, Graphite
- ELK Stack components (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Kafka for real-time event streaming
- Terraform & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Ansible for configuration management
- Consul for service meshing and discoverability
- Snowflake for data warehousing
- Linux administration
- DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, etc.)
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Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with large-scale observability platforms.
- Strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Ability to process high-volume monitoring, logging, and telemetry data.
- Dedication to automation, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Adaptability to thrive in a remote-first, collaborative environment.
Eligibility
This role requires unrestricted work eligibility in the United Kingdom (no employer sponsorship required).
Why Join Us?
- Collaborate with high-performing engineers on cutting-edge cloud infrastructure.
- Address complex technical challenges while contributing to scalable, automated, and resilient platforms.
- Work in a remote-first environment with flexible, mission-aligned opportunities.
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