Remote Senior Platform Reliability Engineer

Jackalope Digital LLC; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Coworking options

Generous leave plans

Wellness allowance

Learning & training support

Paid study leave

Modern workspaces

Inclusive team

Job summary

Megaport is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to champion DevOps and SRE culture, ensuring secure, maintainable, and highly available systems across multiple time zones. You will engage with stakeholders to gather requirements and demonstrate solutions, while hands-on engineering and continuous learning drive customer success and company goals.

You will work on improving production reliability across an SRE‑scoped team, promote best practices, and contribute to the evolution of our

Qualifications

• 5+ years administering Linux systems in production environments.
• Familiarity with SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, blast radius, and blameless postmortems
• Strong automation focus to reduce toil and prevent recurrence
• Experience writing runbooks that scale for the broader team
• Solid Kubernetes and broader ecosystem fundamentals
• Cloud infrastructure experience, AWS preferred
• Proficiency in Bash and either Python or Go
• Infrastructure-as-code tooling experience, Terraform preferred
• CI/CD and version control, GitHub preferred
• Database experience with Postgres, Cassandra, or ClickHouse
• Experience operating production observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces)

Responsibilities

• Improve production reliability and system resilience within an SRE-scoped team
• Champion high standards and industry best practices
• Communicate with teams and stakeholders at all stages
• Bring fresh ideas and encourage others
• Tackle complex technical problems with a can-do attitude
• Work across multiple technologies in a fast-changing industry
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident reviews
• Write code, handle alerts, improve solutions, and support others
• Play a crucial role in the success of the company and team

Skills

Linux Systems

SRE/DevOps mindset

Automation

Runbooks

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Bash

Python/Go

CI/CD

GitHub

PostgreSQL

Cassandra/ClickHouse

Observability

Incident response

Async/global team

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Bash

Python

Go

AWS

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

ClickHouse

Monitoring tools

Job description

Megaport is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to champion DevOps and SRE culture, ensuring secure, maintainable, and highly available systems across multiple time zones. You will engage with stakeholders to gather requirements and demonstrate solutions, while hands-on engineering and continuous learning drive customer success and company goals.

You will work on improving production reliability across an SRE‑scoped team, promote best practices, and contribute to the evolution of our