Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Remote

12-month contract (high chance of extension)

Job Description
Join a global pioneer in the video game industry and own the reliability of high-traffic, revenue-critical platforms used by millions worldwide. As a Senior SRE, you'll shape the architecture, improve platform-wide resiliency, and ensure services stay performant, scalable, and secure. This isn't just about maintaining a single system, you'll influence reliability across multiple services, driving improvements that touch the entire ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and troubleshooting for production systems, resolving high-severity issues and driving post-incident improvements.
• Influence architecture to improve platform-wide reliability, resiliency, and operational efficiency, ensuring services remain available under heavy load.
• Drive containerisation best practices and manage Kubernetes-based workloads at scale.
• Build and maintain event-driven architectures that scale globally while ensuring fault-tolerance and high availability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, CDK).
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and security teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across services.
• Provide mentorship, advocate SRE best practices, and ensure teams are empowered to deliver resilient, reliable systems.

Experience / Must-Have Skills

• Extensive experience in AWS and AWS-managed services (EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, EKS, Service Catalog, multi-account environments).
• Strong Kubernetes / container orchestration experience, including EKS, OpenShift, Docker, and service mesh.
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, VPCs, routing, load balancing, TCP/IP, firewall policies.
• Proven track record in incident response and troubleshooting at scale.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing event-driven architectures and resilient systems.
• High level of autonomy, able to influence platform-wide decisions and architect for reliability across services.
• Ability and desire to mentor junior staff
• Bonus: experience in gaming, interactive entertainment, or other high-traffic, global-scale platforms.

If you are interested in this role, please feel free to submit your CV.