Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Ocho are working with a client to find a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead the team responsible for keeping their platform running reliably and securely, 24/7.

Our client helps thousands of teams in 60+ countries monitor and improve their applications, and is remote-first, valuing impact, transparency and continuous improvement.

The role

This is a player-coach position. You’ll set the technical direction and own reliability and security strategy for the platform, while staying hands-on with the systems your team runs. It’s a small team with a long-standing habit of fixing root causes, not just alerts, and they’re now growing it as the business scales.

Their stack

• Mostly bare-metal infrastructure, managed by Ansible
• Data ingestion and processing in Rust, running on Kafka
• A Rails app serving the customer-facing UI
• MongoDB, ClickHouse and ElasticSearch

Responsibilities

• Lead the SRE team: set priorities, mentor engineers, grow the team
• Own reliability strategy and the long-term infrastructure roadmap
• Be part of the on-call rotation, and keep improving it
• Act as incident coordinator, and lead blameless postmortems
• Guide strategic projects, including new AWS infrastructure
• Stay hands-on: tune the Rust codebase and infrastructure automation
• Handle security researcher reports, coordinate penetration tests, support ISO renewals

• 8+ years keeping large Linux systems reliable, with experience leading an SRE, platform or infrastructure team (formally or as a technical lead).
• Competent developer across multiple languages, ideally with Rust and Ansible experience.
• Strong incident response and postmortem experience, comfortable translating business growth into infrastructure strategy.
• Bonus: AWS, Kubernetes and Docker.

• Competitive salary
• Remote-first culture - UK wide
• Stock options,
• Flexible PTO
• Personal development budget.