Senior AWS SRE | Hybrid On-Site, Reliability Leader

VIQU Ltd; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

On-call allowance

On-site 2 days/week

Job summary

VIQU Ltd is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own cloud stability and incident response for a growing B2B SaaS platform. You will drive automation, observability, and tooling adoption while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

You will work primarily with AWS and on-premise VMs, implementing IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes, and monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. On-site presence is required two days per week in Milton Keynes.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar (cloud, infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering) within a customer facing environment - e.g. SaaS or MSP.
• Strong hands-on experience with both AWS, and on-premise virtual machines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code/Terraform, Container orchestration (Kubernetes), and Monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Azure Monitor).
• Ability to implement new processes, and tools, ensuring the wider development and support teams adopts new ways of working.
• Ability to communicate across internal teams and external customers.
• Skilled in networking across both cloud (Azure) and on premise environments.
• Either Windows or Linux systems administration skills (Linux preferred).
• Previous use of AI tools to enhance efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Utilise various technologies (Terraform, Kubernetes ect) to manage provision, and configure Servers and networks, and automate application life cycles.
• Regularly use Datadog and other observability tools for application performance monitoring.
• Implement new ways of working, helping to shape how the organisation responds and recovers to incidents.
• Take ownership of incident resolutions.
• Actively drive down key reliability metrics (MTTR, incident frequency, on-call toil) by evaluating key incidents.
• Work on an a on call rota, ensuring you are available to respond to incidents during this time.
• Identify areas for automation and help implement changes that raise the bar for reliability.

Skills

Cloud & DevOps

Incident response

Cross-team communication

On-call rotation

Cloud networking

Linux/Windows admin

AI tooling usage

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Azure Monitor

Job description

VIQU Ltd is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own cloud stability and incident response for a growing B2B SaaS platform. You will drive automation, observability, and tooling adoption while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

You will work primarily with AWS and on-premise VMs, implementing IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes, and monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. On-site presence is required two days per week in Milton Keynes.