Systems Engineering Manager - Charing Cross

Hackajob Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackajob Ltd is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead software and systems teams, ensuring uptime and performance of critical services. You will own automation, drive reliability improvements, and mentor engineers across continents in a follow-the-sun model.

The role emphasizes leadership in availability, latency, and efficiency, with opportunities to shape large-scale infrastructure and ML-enabled platforms. In-person interviews are typical in the recruitment process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of people management experience.
• 3 years of experience leading projects and working with administration or networking.
• Masters degree preferred in CS or related field involving coding.
• Track record mentoring technical leads and leading multiple technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software and systems engineers on user-focused projects and ensure uptime.
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation.
• Automate responses to all non-exceptional service conditions.
• Mentor the team and establish credibility through high-quality technical work.
• Manage on-call rotations across continents using a follow-the-sun model.
• Design, write, and deliver software to improve service availability and efficiency.

Skills

People management

Project leadership

Mentoring

Availability/Uptime focus

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Hardware

IaaS

Machine Learning

Network

TCP/IP

Cloud

Support

Job description

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience programming in one or more programming languages
• 3 years of people management experience
• 3 years of experience leading projects and working with administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN)
• Preferred: Masters degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics)
• Preferred: Track record of mentoring technical leads
• Preferred: Proven success leading and influencing multiple technical teams

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software and systems engineers on user-focused projects and be directly responsible for uptime
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services, and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
• Automate responses to all non-exceptional service conditions
• Lead by example, mentor the team, and establish credibility through quality technical execution
• Manage on-call rotations across continents using a follow-the-sun model
• Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our services

Technologies

• Hardware
• IaaS
• Machine Learning
• Network
• TCP/IP
• Cloud
• Support

More

We are a global technology company. Our Site Reliability Engineering teams combine software and systems engineering to build and operate large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, uptime, capacity, performance, automation, and continuous improvement. Our ML Compute SRE team delivers infrastructure for machine learning users and supports accelerators such as TPUs and GPUs, along with the hardware and low-level services that provide ML as an IaaS. Our Technical Infrastructure organization develops and maintains data centers, platforms, and networks. We foster intellectual curiosity, collaboration, openness, self-direction, mentorship, and a blame-free environment. In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

last updated 40 week of 2026