SRE Lead: AI-Driven Observability & Auto-Healing

Falconsmartit; Hove; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Falconsmartit in the United Kingdom invites an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our hybrid team in Hove. You will drive modernization of IT operations by implementing observability practices, reducing toil, and leading automation initiatives across cloud, containers, and AI‑driven monitoring.

The role requires deep SRE knowledge, hands‑on expertise with Dynatrace and Datadog, and proficiency in Python and Ansible, plus AWS and Azure experience.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing SRE and observability in large-scale environments.
• Strong automation and scripting capabilities.
• Certifications in cloud platforms and observability areas preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Engineering to modernize IT operations and reduce toil.
• Architect and deploy observability platforms to monitor health, performance and reliability.
• Develop AI-driven alerting and anomaly detection to reduce MTTR/MTTD.
• Define SLOs, SLIs and error budgets and enforce SRE best practices.
• Create an AIOPS roadmap to improve operational efficiency.
• Automate repetitive tasks and incident responses for autonomous operations.
• Lead incident management and root cause analysis with automated tooling.
• Partner with teams to enable shift-left reliability and guide SRE adoption.
• Mentor teams on SRE principles and promote culture of reliability.

Skills

SRE principles

Observability

Automation scripting

Python

Ansible

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

AI/ML for reliability

CI/CD

Incident management

Tools

Dynatrace

Datadog

Gremlin

Chaos Monkey

Docker

Kubernetes

AI/ML tooling

Job description

Falconsmartit in the United Kingdom invites an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our hybrid team in Hove. You will drive modernization of IT operations by implementing observability practices, reducing toil, and leading automation initiatives across cloud, containers, and AI‑driven monitoring.

The role requires deep SRE knowledge, hands‑on expertise with Dynatrace and Datadog, and proficiency in Python and Ansible, plus AWS and Azure experience.