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Simon Gray

Engineering Manager at Trellis Grid | ex-Goldman Sachs

Works at: Trellis Grid
Location: Bristol, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
Experience: 11+ years experience
Education: Durham University
Languages: English

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Overview

I lead cloud infrastructure at Trellis Grid in Bristol. Grew the infrastructure team from 5 to 15 engineers. Shipped 8 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback. Most at home with Linux and incident response. Kannada theatre fan.

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LinuxPrometheusincident responseAWS

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Hiring a senior data engineer for the infrastructure team - Bristol or remote

Role: Senior data engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Contract
Work mode: Remote
Compensation: $150k-$185k + equity
Team: Infrastructure, 9 people
Start: Within two months
Must have: Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process: Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp £98k-£147k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Bristol, UK · remote OKawsincident responseprometheus

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Engineering Manager
Apr 2025 - Present
Trellis Grid · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
- Led the migration of 25 services to incident response.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 4.
Site Reliability Engineer
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 2.
Site Reliability Engineer
Jul 2019 - May 2023
NatWest · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
- Wrote the AWS service that now handles 57 million requests a day.
Site Reliability Engineer
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Indeed · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
- Wrote the incident response service that now handles 62 million requests a day.
- Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 576ms to 156ms.
Site Reliability Engineer
Oct 2015 - May 2018
Meta · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
- Wrote the Linux service that now handles 58 million requests a day.

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Durham University
BA, Computer Science
2011 - 2014

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Simon Gray

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Hiring a senior data engineer for the infrastructure team - Bristol or remote

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