Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

Veson Nautical is looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, monitor and support the cloud infrastructure behind its growing SaaS platform. The role spans AWS and Google Cloud Platform, with an immediate focus on expanding the GCP footprint and the systems connecting environments across regions, accounts and clouds. It is a senior individual contributor role in a global SRE team, based in London in a hybrid model with 2-3 days per week in the office.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate scalable, reliable and secure infrastructure across GCP and AWS
• Lead greenfield builds for new applications and modernise existing infrastructure toward common patterns
• Solve cross-region, cross-account and cross-cloud problems such as networking, identity, data movement and operational patterns
• Drive automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with Terraform and related IaC tooling
• Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting and observability practices
• Cross-train and mentor other engineers to broaden GCP and multi-cloud capability
• Partner with development teams on reliability, performance and scalability
• Set technical direction through design reviews, architecture proposals and documented proposals
• Improve incident response and follow-up so incidents do not recur
• Improve cloud cost effectiveness through visibility, analysis and sound architecture

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Previous experience on a large-scale SaaS platform serving thousands of global users 24x7x365
• 5+ years of hands-on GCP experience, including production workloads at scale
• Production Kubernetes experience, especially GKE
• Ability to raise a team's technical capability through mentorship and documentation, and to build consensus across teams

Required skills

• Proficiency with IaC, preferably Terraform with the GCP provider
• Google Cloud networking (VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN)
• Strong programming in Python, Go or TypeScript for automation and tooling
• Nice to have: AWS, GCP security and IAM, BigQuery and Dataflow, cloud cost management, GitLab CI or Octopus Deploy, and GCP professional certifications