Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (Platform / Automation)

Remote, UK

About the Role

A UK-based AI Sovergeign Cloud is looking for SRE and Platform engineers who default to automation. The successful candidate will help build the operations function from the ground up; turning runbooks, alerts, and manual workflows into safe, auditable automation and internal tooling that improves reliability across AI infrastructure and data-centre platforms.

This is a platform and SRE role with a strong software engineering focus. It is not an AI model-building position. The engineer will work closely with operations, platform, and engineering teams to cut manual toil, improve alert quality, and shorten incident response times.

Key Responsibilities

• Write Python-based automation for incident triage, runbook execution, and day-to-day operational tasks.
• Connect observability, ITSM, and infrastructure APIs to enrich alerts and automate workflows.
• Improve monitoring signal quality through correlation, enrichment, suppression, and deduplication.
• Build internal tools and self-service capabilities—CLI utilities, ChatOps integrations, and dashboards.
• Maintain version-controlled runbook-as-code and reusable automation libraries.
• Turn post-incident learnings into better tooling, automation, and operational standards.
• Support safe, auditable automation for higher-risk actions with appropriate approval controls.

Essential Experience

• Experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, or production infrastructure operations.
• GPU, data-centre, or colocation infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on work with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Exposure to incident management, on-call, and converting manual runbooks into automation.
• Strong Python skills for automation, APIs, and integrations.

Nice to Have

• ITSM integrations (ServiceNow, Halo, Jira Service Management, or similar).
• ChatOps tooling (Slack or Microsoft Teams bots).
• OpenTelemetry, logging, or distributed tracing experience.
• DCIM, IPAM, or hypervisor-control-plane integrations.
• Experience with LLM-assisted or agent-based operational automation.

Why Join

The organisation is a mission-driven start-up building critical national infrastructure, where operational excellence directly fuels growth. This role offers high visibility with leadership, real autonomy, and the opportunity to shape how a next-generation company operates at scale.

Diversity & Inclusion

The organisation is an equal opportunity employer. It celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.