SRE Architect: Cloud & Data Reliability Leader

Hitachids

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services seeks a senior SRE/DevOps professional to lead the Site Reliability Engineering practice, transforming operations toward proactive, engineering-led reliability. You will define NFRs with FMEA-based methods, champion observability, self-healing automation, and automated incident management, while ensuring cost efficiency and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities include defining NFRs, building self-healing automation, and leading DB automation with UK release

Qualifications

7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or production engineering with 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity.
Proven track record of improving availability, reducing MTTR, and implementing self-healing at scale.
Experience managing or automating database operations in enterprise environments.
Relevant certifications preferred: CKA, AWS DevOps Professional, Azure DevOps Expert, SRE Foundation.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Responsibilities

Define and enforce non-functional requirements (NFRs) for performance, scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency using FMEA-based failure analysis.
Design and implement self-healing automation for known failure patterns, reducing human intervention and on-call burden by 50%+.
Build comprehensive observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) with ML-driven anomaly detection and AIOps capabilities.
Lead automated incident management: detection, triage, escalation, remediation, and post-incident review automation.
Drive DB automation: automated provisioning, release management (UK focus), backup/restore, and operational request workflows for all database operations.
Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across all critical services, using them to balance reliability with feature velocity.
Conduct chaos engineering exercises and game days to validate resiliency and uncover hidden failure modes.
Mentor 2 SRE Engineers, establish engineering standards, and build a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.
Collaborate with Platform Engineering and Cloud teams to embed reliability into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.