Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Renesas Electronics Corp.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium Limited invites a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability and performance of our cloud platforms. You will automate operational tasks, improve observability, and collaborate with development teams to build scalable, resilient SaaS products.

Your role includes incident response, capacity planning, and driving IaC and deployment efficiency across regions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in a large-scale environment.
• Software development experience, ideally .NET.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice and HA architecture.
• Observability with tooling like NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL.
• Experience with Kubernetes clusters in production and AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and IaaC Terraform, Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Understand how an Altium Cloud Platform works and contribute to reliability.
• Pioneer improvements in observability, logging, monitoring, and APM.
• Develop reliability frameworks to elevate SaaS resilience across regions.
• Promote a shared responsibility model with engineering on reliability.
• Contribute to incident response, rapid resolution, and post-incident reviews.
• Participate in system design, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Partner with engineering to improve stability and manageability via best practices.
• Drive automation, promote Infrastructure as Code, and streamline deployments.
• Champion SOO principles to ensure accountability in service ownership.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

.NET development

Observability

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Networking basics

Relational databases

Tools

NewRelic

ELK

Grafana

PagerDuty

OTEL

Jenkins

Gitlab

GitHub

ArgoCD

Job description

Why Altium?

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world's technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

• Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
• More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
• We are growing, debt-free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry

Company Description

Why Altium?

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world's technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

• Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
• More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
• We are growing, debt-free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry

Job Description

Role Overview:

Senior Site Reliability Engineer ensures the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale software systems through a blend of software engineering and systems administration. Key responsibilities involve automating operational tasks, improving observability, and contributing to incident management, while also collaborating with development and technology teams to build more reliable and scalable applications.

Join Altium as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of the Altium Cloud Platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding 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.

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 IaaC Terraform, Ansible
• Basic knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience with relational databases (mysql, postgres) as a plus

Additional Information

Altium Limited, a part of the Renesas Group and headquartered in San Diego, California, is a global software company accelerating the pace of electronics innovation. We are redefining electronic product creation in a software-defined world with our industry-first cloud-based platform that unites every stakeholder and phase of electronics development.

From startups to world's technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before. At Altium, our teams are empowered to innovate, collaborate globally, and help create the future of electronics development.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.