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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Thought Machine - **Location:** UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Adobe InDesign, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Configuration Management, Code Review, Software Design Patterns, Disaster Recovery, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Puppet, Terraform, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-site-reliability-engineer-thought-machine-8140948 ## About the Role * You have a track record of delivering high-impact projects with focus on long-term scalability, ensuring that human intervention scales sub-linearly with usage growth. * You possess an up-to-date understanding of design patterns relevant to hosting and networking architectures. * You proactively champion product development, driven by a desire to build truly exceptional products, not just solve immediate challenges. * You're a high-agency individual who can independently drive projects to completion by effectively scaling your individual output with the appropriate delegation of work to team members. * You have a strong background working in either Python, Golang or Java, having used one of these programming languages to execute a significantly sized project or initiative. * You have experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems. * You have experience with automation/configuration management, e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible. * You have expertise in one or more of the following areas: Database Administration, Networking, Observability Tools (such as Prometheus, Jaeger) or automation infrastructure. * You have extensive experience working with either GCP or AWS., We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia. ## Description * Supporting the product engineering teams in building highly fault-tolerant, scalable applications by participating in design discussions, engaging in RFCs and code reviews. * Executing various department strategies - contributing to the design and scoping work for team members around disaster recovery, backup, redundancy and capacity planning activities. * Being part of a global on-call rotation responsible for identifying and fixing bottlenecks in SaaS customer environments. * Regular maintenance of production systems that host Vault products. * Driving the evolution of our SaaS products by defining and designing features that foster exceptional reliability and an unparalleled user experience. * Implementing and regularly testing DR strategies to ensure the highest level of resilience and fault tolerance of the platform. * Maintain and promote high-quality written documentation of assets, processes and runbooks that are used by the team in their day-to-day operations, * Working with your Manager in growing team members in their technical skills as well as their understanding of Vault Products. ## Related Videos - [Automate everything via NodeJS and Puppeteer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/322-automate-everything-via-nodejs-and-puppeteer) - [5 steps for running a Kubernetes environment at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/88-5-steps-for-running-a-kubernetes-environment-at-scale) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Retooling and refactoring - an investment in people.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/371-retooling-and-refactoring-an-investment-in-people) - [The Memory Leak That Ate Our Cluster: A Postmortem](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2057-the-memory-leak-that-ate-our-cluster-a-postmortem) ## Related Articles - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers)