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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Observability Location: Remote About the Role We are looking for a Lead SRE to design, scale, and operate massive-scale observability systems that keep our global services…

Pay rate £55 – £60/hour
Contract type Contract
Posted 30 July 2026

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Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Observability

Location: Remote

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

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

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