Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Cloud Platform Reliability

Altium LLC; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale software systems in the Altium Cloud Platforms. The role combines software engineering with systems administration to automate tasks, improve observability, and drive incident management across regions.

You will collaborate with development and technology teams to build scalable applications, implement reliability frameworks, and promote a shared responsibility model.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in a large-scale environment.
• Software development experience (ideally working with and as a .NET developer)
• Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice and HA architecture
• Observability tooling experience with NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL

Responsibilities

• Understand how an Altium Cloud Platform works.
• Pioneer improvements in observability, including logging, monitoring, and application performance management (APM), ensuring system reliability and proactive issue detection.
• Develop and implement reliability frameworks and patterns that standardize and elevate the resilience of our SaaS products across multiple regions and environments.
• Cultivate a shared responsibility model where the SRE team collaborates with and educates engineering teams on reliability best practices.
• Contribute to incident response and management, ensuring rapid resolution, clear stakeholder communication, and post-incident analysis for continuous improvement.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, infrastructure upgrades and capacity planning.
• Partner closely with engineering and development teams to enhance product stability, observability, and manageability through best practices in reliability engineering.
• Partner closely with DevOps/Operations, drive automation initiatives, promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and streamline deployment processes to improve operational efficiency and scalability.
• Champion Service-Oriented Organization (SOO) principles to ensure accountability and clarity in service ownership.

Skills

Observability

Incident management

Automation

Collaboration

.NET development

SRE

DevOps

HA architecture

SDLC understanding

Relational databases

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

New Relic

ELK

Grafana

PagerDuty

OTEL

Jenkins

GitLab

GitHub

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Altium is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale software systems in the Altium Cloud Platforms. The role combines software engineering with systems administration to automate tasks, improve observability, and drive incident management across regions.

You will collaborate with development and technology teams to build scalable applications, implement reliability frameworks, and promote a shared responsibility model.