Hybrid Lead SRE

at Robin AI

• Job title: Lead SRE
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cape Town, South Africa

About the role

• Lead SRE Team managing two engineers and cloud infrastructure for Robin AI's Legal AI platform. Drive monitoring strategies for high availability and reliability of services while collaborating with CTO.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of two SRE Engineers, providing technical guidance and career development
• Work closely with the CTO to define and implement the technical infrastructure roadmap
• Establish monitoring strategies and implement solutions to enhance reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
• Collaborate with development team leads to optimise build, test, and deployment processes
• Lead incident response and establish processes for troubleshooting production issues
• Organise and oversee on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 system reliability
• Drive documentation standards and knowledge sharing within the engineering organisation

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles, with 2+ years in a managerial position
• Proven experience managing and mentoring technical team members
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (We use Python)
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.), managed by Terraform
• Knowledge of observability frameworks and tools (We use OpenTelemetry, Cloudwatch & DataDog)
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure deployment and scaling

Benefits

• Generous equity scheme - everyone gets to be an owner of Robin AI!
• 20 days PTO, in addition to the public holidays observed in South Africa.
• Growth opportunities: We prioritise promotions for high performers and help you to progress your career.