Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Role overview Keep a growing, high-traffic service reliable by scaling and securing its infrastructure. The work spans cloud operations, automation, observability, and incident response, with a stated target of supporting traffic up to 100,000 requests per second. This remote role is limited to candidates in the UK and EU member states.

Responsibilities - Design and maintain infrastructure that can handle high traffic and continued growth. - Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging to make service health visible. - Identify security weaknesses and apply security best practices. - Respond to production incidents, resolve them, and document lessons through post-mortems. - Review server logs for unusual behavior. - Build and maintain automation for operational processes, repositories, and build workflows.

Requirements - At least five years of relevant professional experience. - Experience with AWS, Docker, Git, and CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI or Jenkins. - Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, or Packer. - Strong Linux or Unix skills, including shell scripting. - Understanding of security practices and experience setting up build automation and repositories. - Computer science degree or equivalent experience, strong English communication, and ability to work with teams across US and EU time zones.

Nice to have - HashiCorp tools such as Nomad, Consul, or Vault. - MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or distributed architecture experience. - Agile delivery practices, continuous integration and delivery, or executable documentation. - Object-oriented programming and Java.

Benefits and work setup - Remote work with a provided MacBook. - B2B independent-contractor arrangement and internal learning opportunities. - The role description states no overtime, weekend work, or late working hours.