Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Leader
PatSnapIP & company
United KingdomLead
SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Summit Partners
Tencent Investment
Sequoia China
Vertex Ventures
Shunwei Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the UK SRE team, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and performance through automation and AI.
- •PatSnap is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Leader to build and lead their UK SRE team.
- •This role involves shaping engineering strategy and developing a high-performing SRE function focused on building reliable, scalable platforms using cloud technologies, automation, and AI.
- •Key Responsibilities Build, lead, and develop the UK SRE team, establishing operational standards and best practices.
- •Define and drive the operational strategy for the global SaaS platform, ensuring reliability and performance.
- •Lead major incident management and establish/monitor reliability metrics (SLIs, SLOs, KPIs).
- •Drive automation across infrastructure, deployments, and monitoring, championing AI-powered operations.
- •Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Infrastructure teams to improve platform architecture and scalability.
- •Requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, with at least 8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations.
- •Proven experience leading technical teams and managing production environments at scale.
- •Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and observability platforms.
- •Hands-on experience using AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or GitHub Copilot.
- •Fluent in English; Mandarin is highly desirable.
Required skills
KubernetesAWSCI/CDDockerPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptBashLinuxGitOpenAI APIAnthropic API
Domain expertise
productivityai
Tech stack
AWSKubernetesDockerCI/CDOpenAI APIAnthropic APIPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaBashLinuxGitJiraConfluenceREST API