Tariq Zain Ali

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Shell · Cloud infrastructure · Linux, Prometheus

Shell
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
3+ years experience
Trinity College Dublin
English
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Overview

Based in London. I work on cloud infrastructure at Shell. Moved 93% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Shipped 29 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback. Most at home with Kubernetes and Go.

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Skills
PrometheusGoLinuxKubernetes
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Site Reliability Engineer in healthtech, London or hybrid

Target roles
Site Reliability Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
AI infrastructure, B2B SaaS
Work mode
Remote
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the UK
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (seed) where cloud infrastructure is core to the product.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

3 years in cloud infrastructure. Strongest at Kubernetes and Go. Serving notice now.

London, UKkuberneteslinuxgo

Experience

  1. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Shell · 6 mo · Contract · London, UK
    • Moved 71% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 28% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 37 a week to 2.
  2. Site Reliability Engineer
    Mar 2024 - Apr 2026
    NatWest · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 37% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. Trinity College Dublin
    BA, Information Technology
    2020 - 2023

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