At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and evolve a bare-metal infrastructure while driving improvements in deployment and provisioning.
- Company: A profitable, founder-led application monitoring platform with a talented engineering team.
- Benefits: Fully remote work, performance bonuses, equity, health insurance, and unlimited PTO.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with opportunities for professional growth and learning.
- Why this job: Join a hands-on role to modernise infrastructure and support exciting US expansion.
- Qualifications: Strong background in Linux, networking, and infrastructure-as-code; leadership experience preferred.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
About the company
A small, founder-led application monitoring platform with a highly capable engineering team.
Profitable for years before a recent investment from a private equity firm, and still debt-free.
The role
This company runs its own bare-metal infrastructure, leased directly from data centre providers rather than sitting on a major public cloud, giving tighter control over performance and keeping hosting costs down.
The platform has run stably for years, built largely by the current SRE, and we're now looking for a Lead SRE to work alongside him, take on more ownership, and help modernise it from here, including supporting a planned US expansion.
This is a hands-on technical lead role, not people management. You'll join the on-call rotation and be trusted to own infrastructure end to end.
- What you'll be doing
- Owning and evolving a bare-metal, data-centre-based infrastructure estate
- Working with Kafka and Redis as part of the core stack
- Driving infrastructure-as-code, deployment and provisioning improvements
- Acting as a senior technical voice and mentor in a small, high-calibre team
- Supporting a new US hosting region and a longer-term move towards more decomposed, containerised deployments
What we're looking for
- Strong traditional infrastructure background: Linux, networking, DNS, bare-metal and data-centre environments
- Solid infrastructure-as-code experience; Ansible preferred, but strong Terraform or similar is welcome if you can pick up Ansible quickly
- Comfortable outside a purely cloud-native stack
- Prior SRE, platform or infrastructure leadership experience
- A team player first, technical expert second
Nice to have: Rust or Go, familiarity with major cloud providers, Ruby.
- What's on offer
- Fully remote – Europe
- Twice-yearly performance bonus
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Conference and learning budget
Please apply now if you are meeting the above criteria or contact Andrew Harrison directly.
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