Cloud Native SRE Engineer | Kubernetes & IaC | Hybrid

bumper.co; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Company bonus scheme

Private Healthcare

26 days holiday + bank holidays

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Bumper is seeking a DevOps/SRE Engineer to join our Hybrid Sheffield team. You’ll help shape reliability, scalability and observability of our cloud-native platform, building, deploying and monitoring systems across AWS/Azure.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, lead incident response, and drive automation to reduce toil while fostering a strong SRE culture. This role requires strong communication and a passion for resilient architectures.

Qualifications

• Proven DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineer background.
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
• Terraform and IaC automation experience.
• Incident management and on-call experience.
• Monitoring, alerting and observability expertise.
• Ability to diagnose and fix complex distributed systems issues.
• Experience using GenAI tools in engineering workflows.
• Excellent communication and calmness under pressure.
• Passion for automation and reducing toil.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Manage and enhance Kubernetes (EKS) platform to support reliable applications.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines with Argo Workflows, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Lead and participate in incident response and on-call activities.
• Drive monitoring, alerting and observability across metrics, logs and traces.
• Contribute to blameless post-incident reviews and follow-up actions.
• Define and implement SLIs/SLOs to improve reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed best practices and improve developer experience.
• Contribute to automation and tooling to reduce toil and increase resilience.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Terraform

IaC

Incident mgmt

Monitoring

GenAI tools

Automation

Communication

Tools

ArgoCD

Argo Workflows

GitHub Actions

Helm

Grafana Cloud

Job description

Bumper is seeking a DevOps/SRE Engineer to join our Hybrid Sheffield team. You’ll help shape reliability, scalability and observability of our cloud-native platform, building, deploying and monitoring systems across AWS/Azure.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, lead incident response, and drive automation to reduce toil while fostering a strong SRE culture. This role requires strong communication and a passion for resilient architectures.