Aspiring SRE Engineer - Mentored Cloud & Infra

Symphony Communication Services; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hands-on SRE projects

Mentorship from experienced developers

Skill development in new technologies

Networking opportunities

Job summary

Symphony Communication Services is seeking a proactive SRE Placement Student to join the Infrastructure team in Belfast. You will work with senior engineers to apply software practices to infrastructure problems, gaining hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, automated deployments, and reliability monitoring.

You will help with automation, monitoring, incident response, and CI/CD improvements to keep our enterprise platform scalable and resilient.

Qualifications

• Pursuing Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Solid programming skills in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or Bash scripting).
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS) and RESTful APIs.
• Analytical mindset with curiosity for understanding distributed systems and failure modes.
• Clear written and verbal communication with a team-oriented attitude.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Automation: Write and maintain automation scripts and IaC to streamline deployment, scaling, and management.
• Monitoring & Observability: Build and maintain dashboards and alerts (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) to track SLIs/SLOs.
• Incident Response & Support: Shadow SRE mentors during triage, assist RCA, contribute to blameless post-mortem docs.
• Performance & Reliability Tuning: Analyze bottlenecks, stress test services, identify single points of failure.
• CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance: Support CI/CD pipelines for safe, reliable releases.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Bash scripting

Linux

Networking basics

RESTful APIs

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/SE

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Symphony Communication Services is seeking a proactive SRE Placement Student to join the Infrastructure team in Belfast. You will work with senior engineers to apply software practices to infrastructure problems, gaining hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, automated deployments, and reliability monitoring.

You will help with automation, monitoring, incident response, and CI/CD improvements to keep our enterprise platform scalable and resilient.