Harrison Clarke partners exclusively with venture-backed technology companies building category-defining products. We are currently conducting a confidential retained search on behalf of one of our flagship portfolio companies, a well-capitalised, mission-driven technology firm that has been operating at scale since 2014, with millions of global users and a reputation for rigorous engineering.
The Role
As Senior Site Reliability Engineer , you will own the infrastructure foundation that the entire engineering organization depends on. This isn't a support function, it's a strategic one. You'll work at the intersection of reliability, scalability, and developer experience, ensuring that a high-availability distributed system stays fast, resilient, and ready to grow.
What You'll Be Doing
- Maintaining, improving, and securing cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP , alongside Linux systems at scale
- Partnering directly with engineering teams to streamline deployment, packaging, and troubleshooting of complex distributed applications
- Driving CI/CD maturity using Jenkins and adjacent tooling
- Building, operating, and continuously improving Kubernetes clusters in production; serving as the internal authority on container orchestration
- Leading application migration efforts onto Kubernetes in close collaboration with development squads
- Owning internal platform services including Prometheus and ELK
- Monitoring high-availability environments and responding to incidents with urgency and rigour; conducting thorough, blameless post-mortems
- Participating in architecture and code reviews, setting the bar for infrastructure best practice
- Evaluating emerging technologies and making pragmatic decisions on adoption
- Identifying and eliminating toil through intelligent automation
What You Bring
- 5+ years in cloud-based systems operations as an SRE or DevOps engineer
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Strong command of SRE methodologies : SLOs/SLIs/error budgets, capacity planning, disaster recovery testing
- Deep understanding of networking fundamentals
- Proven track record managing production workloads with sophisticated monitoring and alerting
- Comfort with on-call responsibilities and a systematic approach to incident management
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language
- A collaborative, low-ego working style — you raise the team up, especially under pressure
Bonus Points
- Ability to read and reason about Go , Rust , C++ , or TypeScript
- Experience applying AI-driven approaches to operational automation
Site Reliability Engineer in new york at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and onsite.