Manager, Site Reliability Engineering; GCP - Bilingual; French​/English

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (GCP)

Veson Nautical empowers the global maritime industry to navigate complexity on all sides of the trade. Veson's platform combines AI-driven workflows, trusted data, and seamless collaboration to deliver the insight and context needed for confident, competitive decision‑making.

As the manager of the Site Reliability Engineering team for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) at Veson Nautical, you will be responsible for designing, building, monitoring, and supporting the GCP infrastructure that underpins our rapidly growing SaaS platform (10 K Kubernetes clusters, over 1,800 pods, more than 20 billion documents on Elastic Search) and the services that depend on it. This includes:

• Oceanbolt – a dynamic data intelligence platform tracking over 23 000 vessels in real time to deliver accurate, timely market intelligence to drive decision‑making.
• Shipfix – using proprietary AI‑driven tools to infer cargo and vessel information, extracting, anonymizing, and aggregating billions of data points with near real‑time processing of email exchanges in the shipping market.

Our business and platforms are experiencing rapid growth, which ensures we have no shortage of exciting and challenging projects to work on.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role where you’ll manage an extremely talented team of Site Reliability Engineers while personally contributing to architecture and infrastructure initiatives. We are looking for a leader who can think systematically and manage complex systems at scale through automation. The successful candidate will be comfortable participating in architectural discussions with software engineers and, from a scalability perspective, will ensure that the platform can double in size over the next 1–2 years.

The team is committed to a Dev Ops culture, proactive monitoring, and managing infrastructure at scale – they thrive on improving our cloud‑native platforms and adopting new technologies. This position will be in our London office in Southwark, in a hybrid model where we expect a minimum of two days per week in person.

• Google Cloud Platform – primarily PaaS services (Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, Datastore, GKE, GCS, KMS, Pub/Sub)
• Microsoft Graph API automation and IMAP integrations for email ingestion
• Elastic Search hosted with Kubernetes Operator
• CI/CD – Gitlab Pipelines and ArgoCD
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code – Terraform, Terragrunt, and Atlantis
• Monitoring and Security – Cloud Armor Enterprise, Grafana/Grafana Tempo, Open Telemetry, Ops Genie, Renovate, Sentry
• AI Tools – Augment Code, Git Hub Copilot, Claude

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
• Oversee the provisioning and management of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Drive automation initiatives for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and other IaC tools.
• Partner closely with development teams to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of platforms.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability practices.
• Build processes and discipline to improve consistency, visibility, and documentation across infrastructure and operations.
• Lead incident response efforts and ensure service uptime.
• Develop automation, monitoring, and management solutions.
• Prepare infrastructure for integration and future growth.

• Previous experience working on a large‑scale SaaS platform supporting thousands of global users in a 24x7x365 environment.
• Previous experience leading a Site Reliability Engineering / Cloud Ops / Platform / Infrastructure team.
• Operational experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Programming or scripting experience in Python, Bash, or a similar language.
• Experience with cloud cost management (budgeting, anomaly detection, cost analysis and reporting).
• Bilingual fluency in English and…