4 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).
Tech Stack
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Site Reliability
About Aalyria
Aalyria builds networking technologies for operating high-throughput, moving networks across land, sea, air, and space. Its products include Tightbeam, an ultra-high-speed free-space optical communications system, and Spacetime, a platform-as-a-service for modeling, planning, and orchestrating dynamic networks for commercial and government operators. Privately held and headquartered in Livermore, California, Aalyria originated from technologies developed at Alphabet and serves aerospace, telecommunications, and national security markets.