SRE Engineer

Applied Intuition Inc.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology provider in Cambridge is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of their cloud platforms. The role involves automating operational tasks and collaborating closely with engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in an SRE or DevOps role, strong software development skills, and experience with Kubernetes and observability tools. This position offers competitive benefits and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Pension scheme with company match up to 9%

Mental health and wellbeing support

Professional development support

28 days holiday + public holidays

Flexible working arrangements

Corporate gym membership rates

Free lunch, snacks, and drinks

Electric car charging stations

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in a large-scale environment.
• Software development experience, ideally as a .NET developer.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice, and HA architecture.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and performance of Altium Cloud Platforms.
• Automate operational tasks and improve observability.
• Contribute to incident response and management.
• Partner closely with engineering teams on reliability best practices.

Skills

5+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role

Software development experience (.NET)

Strong understanding of SDLC

Experience with Kubernetes clusters

Knowledge of CI-CD tooling

Basic knowledge of networking fundamentals

Experience with relational databases

Tools

NewRelic

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Gitlab

GitHub

Job description

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and’assurance built. From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

• Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
• More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
• We are growing, debt‑free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry

🏢 Form of work: We work in the office 5 days a week, but you must be located close to our office in Cambridge 🏢

🏠 Role Overview

Site Reliability Engineer ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale software systems through a blend of software engineering and systems administration. Key responsibilities involve automating operational tasks, improving observability, and contributing to incident management while also collaborating with development and technology teams to build more reliable and scalable applications.

Join Altium as a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of the Altium Cloud Platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding how anMaialtium Cloud Platform works
• Pioneer improvements in observability, including logging, monitoring, and application performance management (APM), ensuring system reliability and proactive issue detection.
• Develop and implement reliability frameworks and patterns that standardize and elevate the resilience of our SaaS products across multiple regions and environments.
• Cultivate a shared responsibility model where the SRE team collaborates with and educates engineering teams on reliability best practices.
• Contribute to incident response and management, ensuring rapid resolution, clear stakeholder communication-focused analysis for continuous improvement.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, infrastructure upgrades and capacity planning.
• Partner closely with engineering and development teams to enhance product stability, observability, and manageability through best practices in reliability engineering.
• Partner closely with DevOps/Operations, drive automation initiatives, promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and streamline deployment processes to improve operational efficiency and scalability.
• Champion Service‑Orर्जiture Organization (SOO) principles to ensure accountability and clarity in service ownership.

Who you are and what you’ll need for this position

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in a large‑scale environment
• Software development experience (ideally working with and as a .NET developer)
• Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice and HA architecture
• Observability – NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL or similar
• Experience with Kubernetes clusters in production setting, AWS, I o C
• Experience with operational tasks
• Knowledge of CI‑CD tooling Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, ArgoCD or similar
• Knowledge of IaaC Terraform, Ansible
• Basic knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) a plus

Benefits

🌅 Pension scheme with company match up to 9%

🧘 nilo.health, mental health and wellbeing support

📚 Professional development support and resources

🏖 28 days holiday + public holidays and special leave

🏡 Flexible working arrangements available based on role and location

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🚗 Electric car charging stations, free office parking, bicycle, and scooter storage

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, genderergus, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.