Senior Data Platform SRE — Hybrid, Obs & Reliability Leader

Outerlimit; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work London

Conference attendance

Training budget

Benefits package

Job summary

Outerlimit is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to embed within the Data Engineering team. You will own reliability, performance, and operability of the data platform, building observability from the ground up and leading incident response for data outages.

You'll balance feature velocity with system stability, applying SRE practices and capacity planning to help the team ship more reliably and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as SRE or in reliability engineering.
• Strong cloud and data platform experience, especially with Azure.
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code, observability, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for data pipelines and streaming systems.
• Design and maintain data platform infrastructure using IaC in Azure.
• Improve observability: metrics, logs, traces, data quality monitoring.
• Lead incident response and blameless post-mortems for outages.
• Own on-call rotation and reduce toil and alert noise.
• Automate deployments, scaling, failover, and recovery procedures.

Skills

SRE

Azure

Python

DevOps

Observability

Tools

Databricks

Kafka

Pyspark

Terraform

Job description

Outerlimit is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to embed within the Data Engineering team. You will own reliability, performance, and operability of the data platform, building observability from the ground up and leading incident response for data outages.

You'll balance feature velocity with system stability, applying SRE practices and capacity planning to help the team ship more reliably and efficiently.