Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Glasgow

Hackajob Ltd

Glasgow

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 110,000

Full time

36 hours ago

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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

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices, with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform
Fluency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java Spring Boot, or .NET
Deep knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines
Proficiency and hands-on experience in observability practices, including white and black box monitoring, service level objective alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, or Splunk
Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Terraform
Experience with container technologies and container orchestration platforms such as ECS, Kubernetes, or Docker
Experience troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
Ability to identify and resolve problems related to complex data structures and algorithms
Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across different levels and stakeholder groups
Experience mentoring or coaching engineers on site reliability practices and engineering standards
Familiarity with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code practices in large-scale enterprise environments
Experience contributing to or leading communities of practice, internal knowledge sharing, or engineering guilds
Exposure to chaos engineering or fault injection methodologies to proactively test system resilience
Ability to evaluate and introduce emerging technologies that improve platform reliability and reduce operational toil

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 teams applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels
Collaborate with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers
Demonstrate a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and proactively identify and solve technology-related bottlenecks in our areas of expertise
Act as the main point of contact during major incidents for our application and identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial 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 digestible work for other engineers
Act as a technical lead for medium to large-sized products
Provide advice and mentoring to other engineers

Technologies