Founding Cloud SRE - AI Platform & GPU Compute

Wayve; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer in Greater London to build and scale the reliability of its AI cloud platform. This founding role involves defining frameworks and operational standards while collaborating with teams to ensure system performance. Candidates should have strong Kubernetes and cloud systems support experience. The position also promotes a hybrid working model with in-office collaboration two days a week.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an SRE, Production Engineer, or Cloud Reliability role supporting large‑scale cloud systems.
• Strong Kubernetes experience, including operating production clusters.
• Hands‑on experience running production workloads in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience operating complex distributed systems in production.
• Experience with large compute clusters and AI/ML workloads preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of platform environments.
• Participate in a 24/7 on‑call rotation for cloud incidents.
• Design and operate monitoring and alerting systems.
• Build automation for cluster operations and scaling tasks.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

Cloud systems support

Linux fundamentals

Scripting or systems language proficiency

Observability stacks design

Deep troubleshooting skills

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Wayve is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer in Greater London to build and scale the reliability of its AI cloud platform. This founding role involves defining frameworks and operational standards while collaborating with teams to ensure system performance. Candidates should have strong Kubernetes and cloud systems support experience. The position also promotes a hybrid working model with in-office collaboration two days a week.