# Lead Site Reliability Engineer

**Company**: Zego
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Insurance

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zego/75d01fd0-cf80-4e11-8275-4953ef3f0717?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

You will build the Site Reliability Engineering function at Zego, embedding reliability, observability, and operational excellence as core engineering concerns.

Key responsibilities include:

- Defining and implementing reliability standards, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and production readiness criteria

- Encoding standards into automation, such as guardrails in CI and agents that check reliability posture on pull requests

- Building SRE capability on Zego's AI platform, extending MCP servers and agents

- Owning observability as a practice, including instrumentation design and signal quality

- Raising the standard of incident response end-to-end

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Deep SRE experience, including SLI and SLO definition and incident response

- Fluency with AI as an engineering tool, building agents and automation

- Strong software engineering skills in Python

- Observability depth with OpenTelemetry and Datadog

- Experience with AWS at scale and Kubernetes-based platforms

Benefits include:

- Market-competitive salary

- Annual performance bonus

- Share options

- Private medical insurance

- Pension and generous holiday

- £1,000 a year for learning and development

Zego offers a hybrid working arrangement, with teams working together in the office and remotely.

## Skills

### Required
- SRE
- AI
- Python
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog
- AWS
- Kubernetes

### Nice to have
- Istio
- Crossplane
- ArgoCD
- ML
- AI workloads

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