Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior SRE on Prima's Infrastructure team: design, build, and operate reliable, scalable production systems on AWS and Kubernetes, automate operations, lead incident response, and optimize performance, capacity, and security using Python, Pulumi/Terraform, and Datadog. Prima is an online motor insurance provider.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Hands-on experience with SRE practices in production
- Strong AWS expertise
- Kubernetes
- Networking and DNS
- Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi preferred, Terraform a plus)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with emphasis on code quality
- Solid Python proficiency and deep knowledge of the Python ecosystem (testing, debugging, packaging)
- Lead incident response and RCAs, improve system reliability
- Stakeholder engagement and mentoring others
Nice to have
- Experience operating in highly regulated industries (e.g. Insurance, Banking, Healthcare) and managing sensitive data
- Secure networking setups and exposure to security technologies such as Cloudflare
- Strong understanding of microservices architectures and troubleshooting distributed systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Hands-on Datadog experience for platform and application monitoring
- Solid fundamentals in database structures and operational troubleshooting
- Hands-on PySpark experience
- Familiarity with MLOps practices (model registries, versioning, retraining workflows, deployment lifecycles)
Full description
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Fancy helping us shape the future of motor insurance?
Prima could be the place for you.
Since 2015, we’ve been using our love of data and tech to rethink motor insurance and bring drivers a great experience at a great price. Our story began in Italy, where we’ve quickly become the number one online motor insurance provider. In fact, we’re trusted by over 5 million drivers. And now we’re expanding to help millions more drivers in the UK and Spain.
To help fuel that growth, we need a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Infrastructure team.
This team is the beating heart of Prima.
You’ll be joining over +350 engineers across software development, infrastructure, operations and security. Fueled by curiosity, experimentation and collaboration, you’ll help deliver scalable, impactful solutions that shape the future of insurance.
Excited to make an impact? Here are the detailsWhat you’ll do
- Hands-on Reliability & System Engineering: Design, build, and operate reliable and scalable systems by defining and monitoring SLOs/SLIs, working directly on production infrastructure, and collaborating closely with software engineers on system design and reliability improvements
- Automation, Operations & Incident Response: Actively develop automation for infrastructure and operational workflows to eliminate toil and reduce MTTR, participate in and lead incident response, and drive blameless post-incident reviews with concrete follow-ups implemented in code and tooling
- Performance, Capacity & Security: Continuously analyze and optimize system performance and cost, provide data, insights, and recommendations to inform capacity planning, and support security best practices through hands-on vulnerability remediation and threat mitigation
What we’re looking for
- SRE & Cloud Engineering: Hands-on experience with SRE practices in production, strong AWS expertise, Kubernetes, networking, DNS, and Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi preferred, Terraform a plus)
- Automation & Software Engineering: Demonstrate strong software engineering fundamentals with an emphasis on code quality and maintainability. This includes solid Python proficiency and deep knowledge of the Python ecosystem (testing, debugging, packaging) and a consistent focus on writing clean, well-structured, and maintainable code
- Reliability, Data & Operations: add stakeholder engagement and mentoring e.g. lead incident response and RCAs, improve system reliability, and engage stakeholders to propose solutions, share learnings, and mentor others
Nice-to-Have
- Regulated Environments & Security: Experience operating in highly regulated industries (e.g. Insurance, Banking, Healthcare), managing sensitive data, and supporting secure networking setups, including exposure to security technologies such as Cloudflare