Observability Platform SRE - Greenfield, Cloud-Native

Aalyria; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Pension plan

Private health insurance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Aalyria is seeking an experienced Site Reliability/Platform Engineer to build the core observability stack for satellite and deep-space platforms. You will design centralized monitoring across metrics, logs, and traces and drive reliability through SLOs/SLIs and incident response.

You will collaborate with SWE teams to implement best practices, templates, and tooling, while maturing the observability stack with Terraform and ArgoCD in GCP/AWS environments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in an SRE or platform engineering role with a focus on observability for large-scale, distributed compute or network systems.
• Hands-on experience building, scaling, and managing observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK, OpenTelemetry, Tempo/Jaeger, Honeycomb, etc.). You have proven experience using these tools to support performance analysis and debugging of complex distributed systems.
• Strong production-level experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps principles (e.g., ArgoCD).
• Proficiency in a systems programming language, with a strong preference for Go and Python for debugging and tooling.
• Demonstrable experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for production services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Aalyria's centralized observability platform, integrating and scaling tools for metrics (Prometheus), logging (Loki), and distributed tracing (Tempo/OpenTelemetry).
• Define, implement, and manage a robust framework of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core products.
• Partner with SWEs to implement observability best practices, templates, documentation, and tooling configuration.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and management of the observability stack using Terraform and GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Collaborate with core infrastructure to ensure visibility into Kubernetes clusters and cloud environments (GCP and AWS).
• Develop and lead monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies with blameless post-mortems.

Skills

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki/ELK

OpenTelemetry

Tempo/Jaeger

Kubernetes

Go/Python tooling

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitLab CI

Istio/Linkerd

Go

Python

Job description

Aalyria is seeking an experienced Site Reliability/Platform Engineer to build the core observability stack for satellite and deep-space platforms. You will design centralized monitoring across metrics, logs, and traces and drive reliability through SLOs/SLIs and incident response.

You will collaborate with SWE teams to implement best practices, templates, and tooling, while maturing the observability stack with Terraform and ArgoCD in GCP/AWS environments.