observability. SRE

Ampstek; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampstek is seeking a passionate Site Reliability Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team in London. You will manage large-scale Kubernetes clusters, implement IaC with Terraform, and own CI/CD pipelines to ensure high availability and performance of our cloud-native systems.

Collaborating with software and operations teams, you will drive observability, incident response, on-call rotations, and continuous improvements using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and GitOps tooling.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production (AKS/EKS/GKE).
• Proficiency with Terraform and cloud infrastructure automation.
• Practical experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline management.
• Sound understanding of SRE principles (incident management, blameless postmortems).
• Good programming or scripting skills in Python (preferred) or similar languages.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for observability.
• Exposure to GitOps practices and tools (e.g. Flux).

Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor, and optimize large-scale Kubernetes clusters hosted on public cloud platforms (Azure AKS, AWS EKS, or Google GKE).
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve system reliability and
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive
• Automate operational tasks using Python or other scripting languages.
• Contribute to observability and monitoring improvements using modern tools and best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response processes.

Skills

Kubernetes production

SRE principles

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Incident management

On-call readiness

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Flux

Job description

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our

Cloud Platform team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing large-

scale Kubernetes clusters on public cloud environments (AKS, EKS, or GKE) and a strong

understanding of modern SRE and DevOps practices. You will be responsible for ensuring

high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-native infrastructure and

CI/CD systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, monitor, and optimize large-scale Kubernetes clusters hosted on public cloud platforms (Azure AKS, AWS EKS, or Google GKE).
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve system reliability and
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive
• Automate operational tasks using Python or other scripting languages.
• Contribute to observability and monitoring improvements using modern tools and best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response processes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 4–8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production (AKS/EKS/GKE).
• Proficiency with Terraform and cloud infrastructure automation.
• Practical experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline management.
• Sound understanding of SRE principles (incident management, blameless postmortems,
• Good programming or scripting skills in Python (preferred) or similar languages.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for observability.
• Exposure to GitOps practices and tools (e.g. Flux).