About Skyral

Skyral Group develops advanced modeling and simulation platforms for defense and aerospace applications.

The Role

Lead production engineering strategy and mentor teams toward operational excellence. This permanent hybrid role in London combines architectural leadership with hands-on infrastructure work across cloud and on-premise environments.

What You'll Do

• Architecture & Design: Own system reliability, scalability, and operability for core modeling/simulation platforms across multiple engineering teams

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement production reliability strategy for cloud and on-premise deployments

• Mentorship: Up-skill the engineering organization through training, best practices, and coaching on reliability principles

• Infrastructure: Design and operate robust automation leveraging Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code

• Observability: Own observability strategy, evolving in-house tools and integrating monitoring solutions

• SLO Management: Partner with product teams to define Service Level Objectives and error budgets

• Incident Response: Lead incident management and conduct blameless post-mortems

• On-Call Rotation: Participate in troubleshooting critical production incidents

Requirements

• Required: Senior/principal-level experience in SRE, production engineering, or DevOps with proven architectural leadership

• Strong mentoring background with demonstrable team up-skilling experience

• Software engineering proficiency in Go, C++, Rust, or Python

• Kubernetes expertise across diverse production environments

• Deep observability knowledge (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Tempo)

• Cloud platform experience (GCP, AWS, Azure) plus on-premise/air-gapped systems

• Commitment to automation and operational excellence

• Strong stakeholder communication skills

• Clearance requirement: Ability to obtain UK government SC clearance; minimum 5-year UK residency

Nice to Have

• Defense, national security, or regulated industry background

• Government security clearance eligibility

What We Offer

• Unlimited paid holiday

• Hybrid work (London office available)

• Flexible working hours

• Enhanced parental leave (26 weeks maternity/4 weeks paternity at full pay)

• Private medical & dental insurance (Bupa)

• Transparent salary structure

• Office snacks and refreshments