AWS Site Reliability Engineer

Marks Sattin; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology-driven organization in Glasgow is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance their cloud-native data platform. Responsibilities include automating infrastructure, leading reliability initiatives, and building observability solutions. The ideal candidate has strong AWS experience and a solid understanding of SRE principles. This is an excellent opportunity to drive operational excellence and resilience in critical data services.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of SRE principles and practical experience defining SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Demonstrated AWS expertise in production environments.
• Experience with observability tools, monitoring, and alerting practices.

Responsibilities

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and platform operations using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools.
• Lead and execute reliability initiatives including disaster recovery planning.
• Define and manage service health metrics for measurable improvements.

Skills

SRE principles

AWS expertise

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Observability tools

Python scripting

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

An established technology-driven organisation is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Glasgow to strengthen and scale their cloud-native data platform, utilising AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks. This position offers the opportunity to drive automation, resilience, and operational excellence across critical data services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and platform operations using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools.
• Lead and execute reliability initiatives including disaster recovery planning, failure testing, and resilience validation.
• Define and manage service health metrics (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs) to drive measurable improvements in reliability.
• Build observability solutions to monitor AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks workloads.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability best practices throughout platform development.
• Analyse incidents and proactively address root causes to improve availability and performance.
• Provide operational support, drive incident resolution, and implement automated fixes for recurring issues.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of SRE principles and practical experience defining SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Demonstrated AWS expertise (e.g., EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch) in production environments.
• Experience with observability tools, monitoring, and alerting practices.
• Proficient in automation, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK), and scripting (Python/Bash).
• Exposure to Snowflake and/or Databricks data platforms.
• Background in DR/chaos engineering, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, or supporting large-scale data environments.