Senior Site Reliability Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Bradley Stoke; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading retail bank as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance cloud reliability and automation. You will leverage your expertise in GCP, Kubernetes, and automation tools to facilitate service reliability and platform resilience. A hybrid working model is offered, with opportunities for professional growth and contribution to transformational projects.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus

Pension

Qualifications

• Experience with GCP (or AWS/Azure), security and networking.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency in scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Drive reliability and automation in cloud products.
• Troubleshoot service issues with engineering-first approach.
• Mentor engineers and improve system automation.

Skills

Software Engineering

GCP

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Golang

BASH

PowerShell

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD Pipelines

Observability Tools

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Client:

Head Resourcing

Location:

bradley stoke, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

06.06.2025

Expiry Date:

21.07.2025

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Job Description:

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Head Resourcing is pleased to be working with one of the UK's leading retail banks who are looking for an experienced Cloud SRE to join our engineering team and help drive reliability, scalability, and automation across our cloud-based products and services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role is all about embedding SRE best practices, improving platform resilience, and troubleshooting service issues with an engineering-first approach, using code and automation rather than manual work.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Background in software engineering or telemetry, ideally with SRE experience.
• Hands-on expertise with GCP (or AWS/Azure), including security and networking.
• Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters in a production environment.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Golang, BASH, or PowerShell for scripting and automation.
• Understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, with experience in monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Experience with observability tools like Dynatrace, Stackdriver, Cloud Operations Suite, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Logging.
• Ability to mentor engineers, troubleshoot complex system issues, and improve automation to reduce manual effort.
• Up to £106k depending on experience
• Discretionary bonus
• Pension

Hybrid:

• 2 days per week onsite working in Bristol

Why Join Us?

We’re on a mission to transform our technology landscape, investing in automation, innovation, and engineering talent. If you want to help shape the future of cloud reliability, we’d love to hear from you.