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Site Reliability Engineer

Ocient

Site Reliability Engineer Full-time
United Kingdom £74,000 – £90,000/yr October 30, 2026

Job description

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote (United Kingdom)

Hiring Manager: Service Delivery Engineering Manager

Estimated salary range: £74,000 to £90,000

• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Position Overview

Ocient is searching for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for solving hard problems to help maintain and expand Ocient's "as a service" offering of its cutting-edge data warehouse.

Responsibilities

  • Support the design and operations of Ocient's hosted database and related services — including message queues and storage systems — ensuring high availability, performance, and efficiency.
  • Design and maintain monitoring, log centralization, and alerting for all services to facilitate

observability and incident management.

  • Automate deployment and configuration Linux-based servers, including the OS and the

numerous applications that compose our hosted offerings.

  • Develop and maintain rigorous security practices to protect our applications and customer

data.

  • Assist with automation of testing pipelines for the Ocient DB and monitoring of test

infrastructure.

Ideal Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in system administration in production environments.
  • Holds, or has previously recently held, UK Security Clearance
  • Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or other languages.
  • Experience with system and software monitoring and alerting tools, such as the ELK stack,
  • Graylog, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Dynatrace, or others.
  • Experience with configuration management software such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
  • Experience with data archiving, backup and disaster recovery
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment experience with Jenkins, Gitlab CI or
  • others.
  • Experience with source control tools like Git.
  • Ability to work flexible hours and serve in on call rotations.

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:

  • Knowledge of OWASP principles for application security.
  • Experience with server / system virtualization and containerization technologies e.g.,
  • ProxMox, KVM, VMware.
  • Experience with SQL and Database Administration.
  • Experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure. (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with SSAE18 SOC2 Compliance.
  • Experience with networking administration, including VPN, proxy, DNS, and firewall

configuration.

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