Site Reliability Engineer, Big Data (Remote)

Salary: £35,000 - 35,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years operating distributed systems at scale in production
• Deep expertise in Kafka, Ceph, or similar distributed infrastructure
• Proven ability to design for scale and reliability
• Experience mentoring engineers and making technical decisions
• Willingness to work 9 a.m.–6 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time
• Helpful experience with multi-region replication and disaster recovery, infrastructure cost optimization, and hybrid on-premises/cloud operations

Responsibilities:

• Design and optimize Kafka architecture, including topic governance, partition strategies, throughput, and latency
• Operate Ceph, including pool design, placement optimization, and capacity planning
• Automate operational work, speed up incident response, and build preventive systems
• Support SQL Server backup and recovery pipelines and provide basic cluster support
• Develop self-service tooling and observability for the Data team
• Own data infrastructure across architecture, deployment, capacity planning, and incident response
• Mentor engineers, make technical decisions, and help shape platform architecture and engineering standards

Technologies:

• Ansible
• ArgoCD
• Cloud
• Ceph
• Grafana
• Hadoop
• Icinga
• Support
• Kafka
• PagerDuty
• Prometheus
• Puppet
• SQL
• Terraform
• Kubernetes

More:

We are hiring for PulsePoints Data Platform team, which supports systems processing billions of events daily using Kafka, Hadoop HDFS, and Ceph across bare-metal, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure. Our technology includes Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Icinga, and PagerDuty. This is a fully remote opportunity to contribute to large-scale infrastructure serving multiple engineering organizations and help shape the platforms future. The role is intended as a technical contributor position rather than a ticket-driven operations job. Our hiring process includes introductory, technical, architecture, and leadership conversations.

last updated 40 week of 2026