- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and enforce platform engineering guidelines and standards
- Define, implement, and continuously improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for Project Graph HTTP APIs and asynchronous compute platforms
- Standardise and optimise Kubernetes-based deployments, scheduling, and resource management for performance and cost efficiency
- Build and enable self-service infrastructure platforms that empower product teams and improve developer productivity
- Lead the adoption of intelligent software solutions (AI agents and MCPs) to reduce operational toil and improve automation at scale
- Define and enforce platform-wide observability standards, covering metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- Design, build, and maintain robust observability systems to enable rapid detection, diagnosis, and resolution of issues
- Lead incident response, drive blameless postmortems, and ensure effective follow-through to prevent recurrence
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of asynchronous job scheduling systems built on Kubernetes and Postgres
- Design, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, safe, and reliable software delivery
- Own data protection and resilience strategies, including backups, restoration testing, and disaster recovery planning
- Architect and implement cloud infrastructure (AWS) aligned to reliability, scalability, performance, and cost optimisation goals
- Reduce operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform improvements, partnering closely with developers to build reliability by design
- Establish and drive guidelines in incident management, reliability engineering, and operational excellence
- Contribute to evaluating system demand, load testing, and performance engineering to ensure systems scale predictably
- Ensure security and compliance guidelines are embedded in platform build and operations (e.g., least privilege, secrets management, secure configurations)
- Participate in an on-call rotation, supporting production systems and driving continuous improvement in operational readiness
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience)
- 8–10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or Backend Development with a strong operational and production focus
AI‑First & Automation Mindset
- Demonstrated AI-first and automation-first attitude across SRE functions
- Hands-on experience or exposure to AI Agents, MCPs, and AIOps to drive operational efficiency and reduce toil
- Proven ability to identify, prioritise, and eliminate operational toil through automation and intelligent tooling
Cloud, Containers & Platform Engineering
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes in production, including scaling, performance tuning, resolving challenges, and workload optimisation
- Strong experience with containerisation (Docker),Argo and modern deployment patterns
- Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems on AWS
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and cloud automation
Programming & Systems Engineering
- Strong programming skills in Golang and/or Python, with experience building production-grade systems and tooling
- Experience with Node.js/TypeScript or similar backend technologies is a plus
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, REST APIs, and distributed systems design
CI/CD & Developer Productivity
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g., Argo, Jenkins, Github Actions, CircleCI)
- Ability to design and maintain scalable, reliable build and deployment systems
Observability & Reliability Engineering
- Strong expertise in observability practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Prometheus, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, New Relic, or similar
- Experience defining and operating SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Experience with incident response, production operations, and driving blameless postmortems
Data & Persistence Layer Expertise
- Experience operating production-grade databases (Postgres, MySQL/Aurora, Redis, or similar)
- Strong understanding of data protection, backups, resilience, and disaster recovery (build and testing centered on recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives)
Scalability, Performance & Cost Optimisation
- Experience with forecasting resource needs, performance tuning, and load testing
- Ability to design systems that balance reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
Security & Compliance
- Strong understanding of application and infrastructure security guidelines, including API security, IAM, secrets management, and secure system development
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, SOX, and HIPAA, and experience incorporating these requirements into platform design and operations
- Ability to implement and operate systems aligned with security, auditability, and compliance standards in regulated environments
Collaboration & Leadership
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineering teams and drive reliability guidelines
- Proven ability to partner with developers and platform teams to build reliability into systems from the ground up
- Demonstrated ownership approach and ability to drive initiatives end-to-end
Growth Mindset
- Curiosity and ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly
- Passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and sustainable engineering practices
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