2 months ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, integrate, and scale Aalyria’s centralized observability platform for metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core products and production services.
- Partner with software engineers to implement observability best practices, instrumentation, templates, documentation, and tooling.
- Automate deployment, scaling, and management of the observability stack using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
- Provide deep visibility into Kubernetes clusters and GCP and AWS environments in partnership with the core infrastructure team.
- Lead monitoring, alerting, incident response, and proactive reliability practices, including blameless post-mortems.
- Participate in on-call responsibilities.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in an SRE or platform engineering role focused on observability for large-scale distributed compute or network systems.
- Deep hands-on experience building, scaling, and managing observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Tempo, Jaeger, and Honeycomb.
- Production-level experience with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps principles, including tools such as Terraform and ArgoCD.
- Proficiency in a systems programming language, with a strong preference for Go and Python for debugging and tooling.
- Demonstrable experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for highly available distributed systems.
- Preferred experience operating multi-cloud environments using GCP and AWS.
- Preferred hands-on experience with GitLab CI for CI/CD pipelines.
- Preferred working knowledge of Istio or Linkerd service mesh technologies.
- Preferred familiarity with instrumenting applications written in Go and C++.
- Preferred experience with JVM observability for Java-based applications.
- An active Secret clearance or higher is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary benchmarked to the UK aerospace and defence technology market; compensation amount not specified.
- Equity participation in Aalyria’s growth.
- Comprehensive benefits including a pension, private health insurance, and generous annual leave.
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Opportunity to work on novel technology across national security, commercial satellite, and deep-space programmes.
- Collaborative, low-hierarchy environment with direct exposure to technical leadership and customers.
- The role is advertised with a remote-work indicator (#LI-Remote).
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