Senior Site Reliability Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability and automation of its cloud services. This exciting role involves leveraging your expertise in GCP and Kubernetes to drive platform resilience and troubleshoot issues with an engineering-first mindset. You will play a pivotal role in implementing SRE best practices and mentoring fellow engineers. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to transforming technology and shaping the future of cloud reliability. If you are passionate about innovation and automation, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus

Pension

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering or telemetry with SRE background preferred.
• Hands-on expertise with GCP or AWS/Azure, including security and networking.

Responsibilities

• Drive reliability, scalability, and automation across cloud-based products.
• Embed SRE best practices and improve platform resilience.

Skills

Software Engineering

GCP

Kubernetes Management

Python

Java

Golang

BASH

PowerShell

SLOs, SLIs, SLAs

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD Pipelines

Observability Tools

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Dynatrace

Stackdriver

Cloud Operations Suite

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Logging

Job description

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.

Salary:

• 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.