Site Reliability Engineer – Cloud, Kubernetes & Observability

Tyk; Greater London; Remote; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holidays

Flexible hours

Employee stock plan

Maternity and paternity leave

Company retreats

Job summary

Tyk is seeking an SRE to join our Cloud team. You will help build and operate the Tyk Cloud platform, focusing on reliability, automation, and scalable infrastructure across regions and clouds.

You'll work with Go tooling, Kubernetes operators, and standard observability tooling to ensure high availability and cost efficiency, while collaborating with product teams across time zones and countries.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in SRE, platform or infrastructure roles across multiple production environments.
• Experience owning on-call and leading incidents end-to-end.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes experience at scale (ideally EKS).
• Experience designing and operating AWS infrastructure with Terraform or similar.
• Ability to write, test and ship Go tooling or services.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana, plus logging systems.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS).
• Clear communication across time zones and teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the team's planned work each quarter, e.g. platform optimisation and self-serve tooling.
• Expand Tyk Cloud across regions and clouds; optimise costs.
• Automate operations in Go and maintain Kubernetes operators.
• Run services and databases (MongoDB, Redis).
• Improve observability with metrics, dashboards and alerts.
• Keep runbooks current and support SOC 2 audits.
• On-call: respond to incidents, perform post-incident reviews, and assist customers.

Skills

SRE on-call

Kubernetes

Go tooling

AWS

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux fundamentals

Networking (DNS/TCP/IP/HTTP/TLS)

Incident management

Communication across time zones

Education

3+ years SRE/infra

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Terraform/Terragrunt

Helm

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Tyk is seeking an SRE to join our Cloud team. You will help build and operate the Tyk Cloud platform, focusing on reliability, automation, and scalable infrastructure across regions and clouds.

You'll work with Go tooling, Kubernetes operators, and standard observability tooling to ensure high availability and cost efficiency, while collaborating with product teams across time zones and countries.