Senior SRE: Cloud Platform Reliability & Observability

Renesas Electronics Corporation; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of its cloud platforms from its Cambridge, UK operations. You will work across DevOps, engineering, and platform teams to implement observability, reliability frameworks, and automated deployment practices.

The role emphasizes incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement, with a focus on IaC, SOO principles, and cross-region resilience within a SaaS environment.

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 - NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL or similar
• Experience with Kubernetes clusters in production setting, AWS, IOC
• Experience with operational tasks
• Knowledge of CI-CD tooling Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, ArgoCD or similar
• Knowledge of IaC Terraform, Ansible
• Basic knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience with relational databases (mysql, postgres) as a plus

Responsibilities

• Understand how the Altium Cloud Platform works
• Pioneer improvements in observability, including logging, monitoring, and application performance management (APM)
• Develop and implement reliability frameworks and patterns for SaaS products across regions
• Cultivate a shared responsibility model within the SRE team and with engineering teams
• Contribute to incident response and post-incident analysis for continuous improvement
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, infrastructure upgrades and capacity planning
• Partner with engineering to enhance product stability, observability and manageability
• Drive automation initiatives, promote Infrastructure as Code, and streamline deployment processes
• Champion SOO principles for clear service ownership

Skills

SRE / DevOps

.NET development

SDLC

Microservices

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Ansible

Networking fundamentals

Relational databases

Tools

NewRelic

ELK

Grafana

PagerDuty

OTEL

Jenkins

GitLab

GitHub

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Altium is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of its cloud platforms from its Cambridge, UK operations. You will work across DevOps, engineering, and platform teams to implement observability, reliability frameworks, and automated deployment practices.

The role emphasizes incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement, with a focus on IaC, SOO principles, and cross-region resilience within a SaaS environment.