AWS SRE for Data Platform Reliability (Contract)

Paritas Recruitment; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 110,700 - 147,600; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking an AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a contract role in Glasgow. The candidate will support a cloud-native data platform for a major financial services organization, focusing on reliability engineering, automation, and observability. Key responsibilities include designing automation for infrastructure provisioning and managing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical data services. Strong AWS experience and SRE principles knowledge are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience applying SRE principles.
• Proven production experience with AWS services.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning.
• Lead resiliency and disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for data pipelines.
• Build and operate observability solutions across AWS and data platforms.
• Perform root cause analysis on incidents and drive improvements.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering principles

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch)

Automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)

Building observability and monitoring solutions

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks)

Job description

A leading recruitment firm is seeking an AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a contract role in Glasgow. The candidate will support a cloud-native data platform for a major financial services organization, focusing on reliability engineering, automation, and observability. Key responsibilities include designing automation for infrastructure provisioning and managing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical data services. Strong AWS experience and SRE principles knowledge are essential for success in this role.