Job Description:

Location: Reading, UK / Hybrid & Remote Options

We are looking for a Lead SRE to design, scale, and operate massive-scale observability systems that keep our global services online and performant. You will join an autonomous team of software engineers focused on solving complex data infrastructure challenges.

• Scale Prometheus metrics infrastructure to handle 100+ million active series.

• Operate large Elasticsearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.

• Grow high-throughput Kafka data pipelines processing hundreds of thousands of events per second.

• Build custom alerting workflows and self-service APIs for internal engineering teams.

• Provision cloud and private infrastructure using Terraform.

• 5+ years operating mid-to-large distributed systems on Linux VMs or bare-metal machines.

• 2+ years developing in Go, Python, Ruby, Scala, or Bash.

• Hands-on experience with Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, Kafka, the ELK stack, Ansible, or Consul.

• Comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases and participating in an on-call rotation.

Keywords: Observability, Monitoring, SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, ElasticSearch, ELK, Prometheus, Kafka, Terraform, Linux, Bare Metal

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.