Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Platforms — UK (Intermediate to Senior Staff)
Site Reliability Engineer
Posted Sep 8 (49 days ago) · Last updated Oct 27 · Open 49 days. This role usually stays open about 42 days
Key facts
SRE role in GitLab's Infrastructure Platforms, UK, remote with UK eligibility.
How this salary compares
Estimated €5,920 - €7,500Benchmarked against senior roles
Too few postings state a salary to show this.
| Market | Lower bound (25th percentile) | Median | Upper bound (75th percentile) |
|---|---|---|---|
| senior roles | €5,000 per month | €6,750 per month | €7,500 per month |
| This offer | €5,920 per month | €6,710 per month | €7,500 per month |
Based on 6 job ads that state the pay. · Data and reuse
Estimated from 6 comparable listings
Where and how
- Field
- Technology
- Languages required
- English
Original job ad
As published by Gitlab
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
This is the employer's own ad. Pay, requirements and the other details on this page are our reading of it, not facts the employer confirmed.
About the role
Summarised by JobCrawls from the job ad above.
Requirements
- Experience keeping production systems reliable, combining an operations mindset with real software engineering practice
- Experience building net-new infrastructure tooling and automation, not just configuring existing tools
- The ability to read, debug, and reason about code
- Experience with infrastructure as code, and with Kubernetes and its ecosystem
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP or AWS)
- Familiarity with observability practices, including metrics, logging, alerting, and SLOs or SLIs
- Comfort participating in on-call and incident response, with a structured approach to troubleshooting under pressure
- Strong written communication and the ability to operate as a manager-of-one in an async, distributed environment
- A track record of using automation, and increasingly AI, to reduce toil and improve how you and your team work
- Alignment with GitLab's values and a commitment to working in accordance with them
Responsibilities
- Keep user-facing services and production systems reliable, scalable, and efficient
- Build automation and tooling that reduces toil and replaces manual work with repeatable, infrastructure-as-code-driven workflows
- Operate and troubleshoot production systems on Kubernetes, including deployments, rollouts, and scaling
- Write and maintain infrastructure as code, and ship changes safely through CI/CD and GitOps
- Participate in on-call, triage alerts, follow and improve runbooks, and escalate appropriately
- Contribute to the observability stack, using metrics, logs, and SLOs to detect symptoms early rather than just outages
- Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews, turning learnings into changes in automation and process
- Document runbooks, architecture decisions, and reviews so your findings become repeatable practices
Skills & technologies
GoRubyKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitOpsCloud (GCP Or AWS)Observability (metrics/logging/SLIs)Incident ResponseAutomationAI Tooling
Benefits & perks
Recruitment process
- Recruiter Screen
- Core Technical
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Peer Technical
- Skip-Level Interview
- Final placement
About Gitlab
Gitlab · 4 open roles
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