SRE Architect (68019)
Hitachi, Ltd.3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and enforce non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency using FMEA-based failure analysis.
- Design and implement self-healing automation for known failure patterns to reduce human intervention and on-call burden.
- Build observability stacks with metrics, logs, traces, ML-driven anomaly detection, and AIOps capabilities.
- Automate incident detection, triage, escalation, remediation, and post-incident reviews.
- Automate database provisioning, release management, backup and restore, and operational request workflows.
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
- Conduct chaos engineering exercises and game days to validate resiliency.
- Mentor two SRE Engineers and establish engineering standards and a culture of reliability.
- Collaborate with Platform Engineering and Cloud teams to embed reliability into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or production engineering, including 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity.
- Proven experience improving availability, reducing MTTR, and implementing self-healing at scale.
- Experience managing or automating database operations in enterprise environments.
- Expertise with observability, resiliency, service management, reliability, performance engineering, scalability, release management, and cloud cost management.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with automated database provisioning, migration tools, and database release pipelines.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, and Bash automation and self-healing runbooks.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud platforms, networking, and storage systems.
- Experience with CI/CD and release engineering tools for integrated database and application releases.
- Experience with FinOps principles, resource optimization, and cloud spend analysis.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, communication, analytical, problem-solving, and prioritization skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Relevant certifications such as CKA, AWS DevOps Professional, Azure DevOps Expert, or SRE Foundation are preferred.
- Published SRE, observability, or chaos engineering work; service mesh and distributed tracing experience; and financial services or regulated-industry experience are desirable.
Benefits
- Industry-leading benefits, support, and services focused on holistic health and wellbeing.
- Flexible working arrangements depending on role and location.
- An inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations available during recruitment.
- Autonomy, freedom, ownership, knowledge sharing, and a focus on work-life balance.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBashDatadogFlywayGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaIstioJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonSpinnakerSQL
Categories
Site Reliability
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. builds industrial, energy, rail, and digital systems for governments and enterprises, combining operational technology with IT, cloud, and data infrastructure services. Its portfolio spans power grids, factory automation, data centers, rail systems, and consulting delivered through units such as Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi Rail, and Hitachi Energy. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates globally across critical infrastructure markets.