Senior SRE: Latency-Sensitive Platform + Equity

Understanding Recruitment; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance reliability, observability, and tooling for a latency-sensitive production platform. The role spans production infrastructure, monitoring, incident response, and deployment workflows with a strong Linux and networking focus.

You will work to improve CI/CD, automation, and internal tooling while elevating developer experience from local setups to production.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Experience operating production infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and alerting.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
• AWS, Terraform or Ansible experience would be advantageous.
• Experience with high-performance, high-throughput or latency-sensitive systems would be valuable.

Responsibilities

• Improve the reliability and operability of production systems.
• Build and improve monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards and alerting.
• Improve incident diagnosis, root cause analysis and operational workflows.
• Build safer and more repeatable deployment and rollback processes.
• Automate repetitive operational and infrastructure work.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Develop internal tooling that helps engineers operate production systems more effectively.
• Improve the developer experience from local development through to production.
• Work with Linux systems, networking, host configuration and resource contention.
• Contribute to infrastructure security, access controls, secrets management and system hardening.

Skills

Site reliability engineering

Platform engineering

DevOps

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud environments

Linux systems

Networking fundamentals

Monitoring & observability

CI/CD

Automation

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance reliability, observability, and tooling for a latency-sensitive production platform. The role spans production infrastructure, monitoring, incident response, and deployment workflows with a strong Linux and networking focus.

You will work to improve CI/CD, automation, and internal tooling while elevating developer experience from local setups to production.