Who We Are
At Partnerize, we're on a mission to transform the way businesses grow. We've built the leading partnership automation platform that empowers brands to discover, engage, and convert their audiences at scale. From affiliate marketing to influencer collaborations, we help our clients build and manage profitable partnerships that drive real results. We're a team of passionate problem-solvers who are dedicated to helping our clients win in the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.
Why Join Us
We're looking for passionate, talented people who want to be part of a winning team. At Partnerize, you'll find a culture of collaboration, innovation, and respect. We're guided by our core values, and we're committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work. We also offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, and a flexible work environment that allows you to thrive both personally and professionally. If you're ready to grow your career and make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Summary:
This is a captivating and exciting time to join Partnerize. We are at a pivotal point in our tech progression, looking to significantly expand our technical estate, scale the platform, and replace existing legacy systems with modern solutions. You will play a vital role in the ongoing operationalisation and management of our entire platform portfolio found in our on-prem datacentres and AWS cloud: Partnerize, BrandVerity, Ascend, and our recent acquisition, Konnecto. While there will be a key focus on integrating and supporting Konnecto's advanced data and AI layers, a critical pillar of your mission will be spearheading the development of our enterprise on-prem containerisation solution. This initiative is designed to fundamentally shift our engineering culture towards a "you build it, you own it" model. By providing robust, automated container platforms, you will empower our Engineering teams to deploy quickly and independently, significantly reducing the bottleneck created by relying solely on the TechOps department.
We are looking for a Lead SRE who is both a deep technical expert and a capable mentor. In this role, your primary responsibility is ensuring our diverse, hybrid systems remain available, scalable, and secure. You will act as an authoritative Subject Matter Expert (SME), championing developer autonomy, driving IT systems security policies, and working closely with the security compliance team to protect our platforms from threats while driving continuous integration and delivery.This role will report into the SRE and Application Manager providing them with technical guidance and recommendations whilst being the technical lead for the SRE team.
The Team
You will be responsible for ensuring the continuous development and progression of team members. We are looking for a player/coach who can mentor, empower, and up-skill talent. We have a mix of technical generalists, specialists, and junior engineers; you will help identify their strengths and constructively develop areas of weakness, guiding their technological career paths as we transition to a DevOps-centric operating model.
The Operational Reality
You will operate in a fast-paced, high-velocity environment where your work directly and visibly shapes the company's architectural future. This requires a highly adaptable and pragmatic leader who can balance strategic project delivery with hybrid-estate maintenance. By applying modern incident management frameworks to troubleshooting and ticket management, you are responsible for ensuring all issues across our estate are addressed decisively and efficiently.
As a Lead SRE, You Will:
Strategic & Operational Management
People Leadership & Talent Development
Security & Architecture
Incident Management&Toil Reduction
Toil Reduction Champion toil reduction through automation, continually identifying manual, repetitive operational work and engineering it out of existence.
Post-Mortems & Escalation
Act as the ultimate escalation point for complex support incidents, participate in the On-Call rotation, lead blameless post-mortems, conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and aggressively track metrics like Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).
General Duties
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Core Competencies
Technical Competencies
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
The following skills or experiences are advantageous but not strictly required
UK Benefits & Perks
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing our outstanding team members, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity. We strive to foster an environment where people can be their authentic selves, raise concerns and innovate, all without fear; where they are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources and can contribute fully to the organization’s success. Every individual in our business is expected to live this commitment without exception.
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