Platform Engineer — SRE & Observability (Hybrid)

Innova Recruitment Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Private healthcare

Job summary

Innova Recruitment Limited is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a Manchester hybrid role. You will own the platform reliability, observability and engineering quality across teams, reporting to the CTO and shaping technical direction.

You'll define standards, tooling and best practices, lead observability initiatives, enhance IaC and Playwright automation, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while improving stability and confidence.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in platform reliability and engineering practices.
• Strong background in DevOps and cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to define standards and tooling for scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform engineering practice and set standards across teams.
• Define engineering standards, tooling and best practice for platform engineering, DevOps and quality.
• Lead observability initiatives with telemetry, monitoring, dashboards and alerts.
• Improve Azure platform capabilities and IaC ownership.
• Evolve Playwright automation to empower developers.
• Optimise CI/CD pipelines for faster, reliable releases.
• Collaborate with Tech Lead to boost reliability and scalability.
• Support AI-assisted, spec-driven software delivery.

Skills

Platform engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Azure

CI/CD

Observability

Automation

Coaching teams

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

Playwright

Datadog

New Relic

Kibana

Job description

Innova Recruitment Limited is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a Manchester hybrid role. You will own the platform reliability, observability and engineering quality across teams, reporting to the CTO and shaping technical direction.

You'll define standards, tooling and best practices, lead observability initiatives, enhance IaC and Playwright automation, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while improving stability and confidence.