Senior SRE — Remote UK, Own Uptime, Cost & Platform

Hozah; United States; Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sole ownership of platform and reliab.

Build reliability function at scale

Strong culture with influence

Office near East Croydon Station with/

Job summary

Hozah is seeking its first Site Reliability Engineer to own how the platform runs. You will manage GKE and Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform for Google Cloud, SOPS-encrypted secrets, CI/CD with Semaphore, Temporal workflows, and Postgres, plus the reliability practice around them.

You’ll work with product engineers to enable safe shipping, improve observability, set uptime targets, on-call rotations, and cost control as traffic grows.

Qualifications

• You’ve owned production reliability for a Kubernetes-based platform (GKE, EKS or AKS) in the last 12 to 24 months.
• You write and maintain infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform, and you’ve built CI/CD pipelines with safe release: rollbacks and promotion between environments.
• You’ve cut cloud cost with a measured result and kept it down.
• You’ve set up or rebuilt on-call and incident response in a small team: the rota, the runbooks and the postmortems.
• You’ve built observability and service level objectives that changed what got fixed, not just dashboards that nobody opened.
• You work with product engineers without becoming a ticket queue. You can describe how you got engineers to take on reliability work themselves.
• You use AI tools sensibly for operations work, and you know where not to. You can describe real recent use and a time you did not trust the output.

Responsibilities

• Own uptime and reliability with SLIs/SLOs for the money-moving and enforcement paths.
• Own on-call: the rota, the runbooks and the incident process, including postmortems that lead to changes.
• Own observability across Cloud Monitoring, Logging and Trace.
• Own infrastructure as code: Terraform and CI/CD, including SOPS-encrypted secrets.
• Own the Semaphore CI/CD pipelines and safe release: rollbacks and progressive rollout.
• Own cloud cost: know what we spend and why, reduce it with measured results as volume grows.
• Work with product engineers as a partner to design for reliability and review changes that affect production.

Job description

Hozah is seeking its first Site Reliability Engineer to own how the platform runs. You will manage GKE and Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform for Google Cloud, SOPS-encrypted secrets, CI/CD with Semaphore, Temporal workflows, and Postgres, plus the reliability practice around them.

You’ll work with product engineers to enable safe shipping, improve observability, set uptime targets, on-call rotations, and cost control as traffic grows.