Staff Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

Staff Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

London or RemoteAbout you

An SRE or DevOps engineer with hands-on experience in high-traffic production systems

Strong in Linux, databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis), and networking fundamentals

Comfortable with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools like Datadog

A self-starter who thrives in scaling environments and can work independently without PMs

Pragmatic, able to balance prevention, maintenance, and firefighting when needed

Your mission is to

Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 50M+ users

Build robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices

Improve CI/CD pipelines and enable safe deployments (blue-green, canary)

Partner with engineers across teams to fix pain points in infra, tooling, and reliability

Bring initiatives that make the platform automatically reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable

Your impact

Collaborate with engineering teams to improve operational workflows and resilience

Design smart alerts, improve observability, and drive better performance monitoring

Lead incident response, including on-call, and drive improvement with blameless postmortems

Build safer delivery methods and improve deployments with Kubernetes and GitLab pipelines

Report directly to the CTO and act as the primary reliability leader in the company

Your toolkit

Linux, networking (TCP/IP), and distributed systems troubleshooting

Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis

Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, CI/CD best practices

Observability tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK stack

Nice-to-haves: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, Datadog

What makes this role exciting

Be the first senior SRE hire with ownership of reliability across the entire platform

Shape infrastructure and processes for a scale-up growing beyond 100 FTE

Work on a product serving millions of users worldwide with real engineering challenges

Gain autonomy while collaborating with strong product and engineering teams

Join a culture that values pragmatism, initiative, and continuous improvement

Why Almedia?

Scale With Almedia: Have a real impact and grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.

High-Growth Environment: We encourage all staff to take ownership of projects and consistently raise the bar.

Do More, Get More: Generous bonus scheme to ensure great, proactive work is valued.

We Listen: We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback.

We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to ..... full job details .....