SRE Architect

Salary: £41,500 - 69,500 per year

Requirements:

• We require 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or production engineering, with 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity.
• We expect proven experience improving availability, reducing MTTR, and implementing self-healing at scale.
• We require experience managing or automating database operations in enterprise environments.
• We prefer relevant certifications such as CKA, AWS DevOps Professional, Azure DevOps Expert, or SRE Foundation.
• We require a bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• We need expert-level observability experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Jaeger/Zipkin, Datadog, or Dynatrace.
• We need strong experience with AIOps and ML-driven monitoring, such as PagerDuty, Moogsoft, BigPanda, or custom ML pipelines.
• We require deep knowledge of FMEA, fault tree analysis, and chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin, LitmusChaos, or Chaos Monkey.
• We require strong SQL skills plus experience with automated database provisioning, migration tools such as Liquibase or Flyway, and DB release pipelines.
• We need proficiency in automation and scripting with Python, Go, or Bash, including self-healing runbooks.
• We require infrastructure knowledge across Kubernetes, cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, networking, and storage systems.
• We need CI/CD and release engineering experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, or ArgoCD for integrated DB and application releases.
• We expect experience with FinOps principles, resource optimisation, and cloud spend analysis.
• We require strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• We need the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Desirable: published work or conference talks on SRE, observability, or chaos engineering.
• Desirable: experience with service mesh such as Istio and distributed tracing at scale.
• Desirable: background in financial services or regulated industry SRE practices.

Responsibilities:

• We lead the Site Reliability Engineering practice and drive the transformation from reactive operations to proactive, engineering-led reliability.
• We define and enforce non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency using FMEA-based failure analysis.
• We design and implement self-healing automation for known failure patterns to reduce human intervention and on-call burden by 50%+.
• We build comprehensive observability stacks with metrics, logs, and traces, including ML-driven anomaly detection and AIOps capabilities.
• We lead automated incident management, including detection, triage, escalation, remediation, and post-incident review automation.
• We drive database automation, including automated provisioning, release management, backup and restore, and operational request workflows.
• We define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across critical services to balance reliability with feature velocity.
• We conduct chaos engineering exercises and game days to validate resiliency and uncover hidden failure modes.
• We mentor 2 SRE Engineers, establish engineering standards, and build a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.
• We collaborate with Platform Engineering and Cloud teams to embed reliability into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Technologies:

• AWS
• OpenSearch
• ArgoCD
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Dynatrace
• ELK
• Flyway
• GCP
• GitLab
• Grafana
• Incident Management
• Istio
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Liquibase
• PagerDuty
• Prometheus
• Python
• SQL
• Architect

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We are Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our worlds potential. We are a people-centric team focused on powering good and helping future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders through engineering excellence and innovation, and we value diverse perspectives, inclusion, mutual respect, and merit-based systems. We offer industry-leading benefits and support for holistic health and wellbeing, flexible arrangements where role and location allow, and a sense of belonging, autonomy, freedom, and ownership. This full-time role is based in London, United Kingdom.

last updated 37 week of 2026