London-Based Principal Multi-Cloud SRE (GCP/AWS)

Veson Nautical; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Veson Nautical is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer for its London-based hybrid office. You will design, build, monitor, and support scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP for a growing SaaS platform.

You'll lead greenfield builds, streamline operations, and mentor engineers to broaden GCP and multi-cloud capabilities. Join a senior IC team focused on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture, including running production workloads at scale.
• Production Kubernetes experience, particularly Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code, preferably Terraform with the GCP provider.
• Experience with Google Cloud networking, including VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, and Cloud CDN.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript for automation and tool development.
• Demonstrated ability to raise the technical capability of a team through mentorship, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
• Lead greenfield infrastructure builds for new applications, and modernize existing infrastructure toward common patterns.
• Solve cross-region, cross-account, and cross-cloud problems - networking, identity, data movement, and the operational patterns that hold across environments.
• Drive automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and related IaC tooling.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability practices.
• Cross-train and mentor other engineers, with the explicit goal of broadening GCP and multi-cloud capability across the team.
• Partner closely with development teams to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our platforms.
• Set technical direction through design reviews, architecture proposals, and clear written documentation.
• Participate in and improve incident response, and drive the follow-through that keeps the same incident from recurring.
• Improve the cost effectiveness of our cloud footprint through visibility, analysis, and sound architectural choices.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

Kubernetes

GCP

Multi-cloud

Incident response

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Atlantis

GitLab CI

Octopus Deploy

GKE

Job description

Veson Nautical is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer for its London-based hybrid office. You will design, build, monitor, and support scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP for a growing SaaS platform.

You'll lead greenfield builds, streamline operations, and mentor engineers to broaden GCP and multi-cloud capabilities. Join a senior IC team focused on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.