Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. You can work from home anywhere in the UK. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

The job includes: run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling; maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie; improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog; plan and run game days and chaos experiments.

What we're looking for

• 5-7 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks.

We offer company pension, 33 days holiday including bank holidays, employee assistance programme, birthday off, annual bonus, flexible working hours and workplace pension.

This role is subject to a basic DBS check.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Merrick Systems.