Lead Site Reliability Engineer: Architect & Incident Leader

Hackajob Ltd; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackajob Ltd. is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer in the UK (Scotland/Glasgow) to champion reliability across teams and architectures. You will influence incident response, observability practices, and platform resilience while mentoring engineers and driving standards.

The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, SLIs/SLOs, and a strong bias for action in large-scale enterprise environments. This position offers a competitive salary and on-site work in Glasgow.

Qualifications

• Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, and security practices.
• Fluency in Python/Java/Spring Boot/.NET or similar languages.
• Hands-on observability with monitoring and telemetry tools.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate and champion site reliability culture and practices, and exert technical influence throughout our team.
• Lead initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of our team's applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels.
• Collaborate with team members to identify SLIs/SLOs and establish reasonable error budgets with customers.
• Demonstrate a high level of technical expertise and proactively solve bottlenecks in our domains.
• Act as the main contact during major incidents and resolve issues quickly to avoid losses.
• Document and share knowledge within our organization via internal forums and communities of practice.
• Take the lead on resiliency design reviews.
• Break up complex problems into actionable work for engineers.
• Act as a technical lead for medium to large-sized products.
• Provide advice and mentoring to other engineers.

Skills

SRE fundamentals

Observability

CI/CD

Containerization

Networking

Mentoring

Cloud platforms

Tools

Grafana

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Datadog

Splunk

Jenkins

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Hackajob Ltd. is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer in the UK (Scotland/Glasgow) to champion reliability across teams and architectures. You will influence incident response, observability practices, and platform resilience while mentoring engineers and driving standards.

The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, SLIs/SLOs, and a strong bias for action in large-scale enterprise environments. This position offers a competitive salary and on-site work in Glasgow.