Production Engineer – SRE & Cloud Automation (UK Hybrid)

Kaluza; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP

Life Assurance

Flexible Holidays

Job summary

Kaluza is seeking a senior technical leader in the UK to drive architectural design and reliability engineering for its distributed infrastructure. You will champion SRE practices, lead observability improvements, and build secure IaC/CI/CD pipelines across regional teams.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and engineering heads, and ensure a balance between rapid feature delivery, performance, and cost efficiency in a hybrid UK environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in production engineering, SRE, or DevOps for high-throughput distributed systems in public cloud.
• Proven technical leadership with platform ownership and upskilling teams.
• Proficiency with IaC, container orchestration, and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with observability platforms and scripting/programming.
• Understanding of distributed network design, cloud security, failover, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural design, technical strategy, and reliability engineering for multi-region scalability and uptime.
• Champion SRE practices, improving observability and incident response, chaos engineering, and root-cause analyses.
• Build and maintain secure IaC and CI/CD pipelines across engineering teams.
• Own complex production initiatives end-to-end as technical authority during incidents.
• Mentor engineers to raise performance, reliability, and architectural standards.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to balance speed, security, and cost.

Skills

SRE/DevOps leadership

Public cloud (AWS/GCP)

Observability & monitoring

Mentoring & coaching

Distributed systems design

Tools

Terraform/CloudFormation

Kubernetes/Docker

CI/CD tooling

Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana

Python/Go/TypeScript

Job description

Kaluza is seeking a senior technical leader in the UK to drive architectural design and reliability engineering for its distributed infrastructure. You will champion SRE practices, lead observability improvements, and build secure IaC/CI/CD pipelines across regional teams.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and engineering heads, and ensure a balance between rapid feature delivery, performance, and cost efficiency in a hybrid UK environment.