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Location: London UK / Hybrid / Remote

Sector: Media & Streaming Technology

A leading TV streaming platform is expanding its engineering team to deliver high-performance, low-latency streaming to millions of viewers worldwide. We’re looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to drive reliability, observability, and scalability across our streaming services while mentoring a team of SREs.

What you’ll do

• Lead end-to-end reliability strategy for video streaming pipelines, playback services, and backend systems.


• Build and maintain observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry) to monitor streaming quality, latency, and uptime.


• Scale cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and orchestrate containerised applications (Kubernetes, Docker) for global distribution.


• Guide incident management, disaster recovery, and post-mortems across multi-region streaming environments.


• Mentor junior SREs and collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability by design into all development efforts.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in high-scale distributed systems, preferably in streaming, media delivery, or content platforms.


• Deep expertise with observability, monitoring, and incident response at global scale.


• Strong cloud skills (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines).


• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or Bash for automation and tooling.


• Leadership experience managing or mentoring an SRE or reliability engineering team.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the reliability and performance of a platform watched by millions, balancing real-time user experience with operational excellence.

Compensation: Great package (Base + Bonus)

Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level


• Employment type: Full-time


• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Venquis is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.