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# Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Glasgow

- **Company:** Hackajob Ltd
- **Location:** Glasgow, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** ASP.NET, Java (Programming Language), .NET Framework, Software Applications, Cloud Computing, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Structures, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Datadog, Computer Network Technologies, Grafana, Spring-boot, Gitlab, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Data Analytics, Terraform, Splunk, Dynatrace, Docker, Jenkins, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5905466603

## About the Role

* Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices, with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform
 * Fluency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java Spring Boot, or .NET
 * Deep knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines
 * Proficiency and hands-on experience in observability practices, including white and black box monitoring, service level objective alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, or Splunk
 * Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Terraform
 * Experience with container technologies and container orchestration platforms such as ECS, Kubernetes, or Docker
 * Experience troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
 * Ability to identify and resolve problems related to complex data structures and algorithms
 * Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across different levels and stakeholder groups
 * Experience mentoring or coaching engineers on site reliability practices and engineering standards
 * Familiarity with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code practices in large-scale enterprise environments
 * Experience contributing to or leading communities of practice, internal knowledge sharing, or engineering guilds
 * Exposure to chaos engineering or fault injection methodologies to proactively test system resilience
 * Ability to evaluate and introduce emerging technologies that improve platform reliability and reduce operational toil

## Description

* Demonstrate and champion site reliability culture and practices, and exert technical influence throughout our team
 * Lead initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of our teams applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels
 * Collaborate with team members to identify comprehensive service level indicators and establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with customers
 * Demonstrate a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and proactively identify and solve technology-related bottlenecks in our areas of expertise
 * Act as the main point of contact during major incidents for our application and identify and solve issues quickly to avoid financial losses
 * Document and share knowledge within our organization via internal forums and communities of practice
 * Take the lead on resiliency design reviews
 * Break up complex problems into digestible work for other engineers
 * Act as a technical lead for medium to large-sized products
 * Provide advice and mentoring to other engineers

Technologies:

 * Cloud
 * Datadog
 * Docker
 * Dynatrace
 * GitLab
 * Grafana
 * Java
 * Jenkins
 * Kubernetes
 * Marketing
 * Prometheus
 * Python
 * Security
 * Splunk
 * Spring
 * Spring Boot
 * Terraform
 * ASP.NET
 * DevOps