Senior Site Reliability Engineer

VIQU IT Recruitment; Kingston; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-call allowance

Bonus

Job summary

VIQU IT Recruitment is recruiting a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a well-established B2B SaaS company undergoing a major platform transformation. The role is Milton Keynes-based with two days on site each week, offering a £75,000 salary and on-call allowance plus bonus.

You will own reliability, support live incidents, and drive adoption of new tooling and processes across cloud and on-prem environments.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as Site Reliability Engineer or similar cloud/infrastructure/DevOps role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure and on-premise VMs.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Terraform.
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes/AKS).
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Azure Monitor).
• Ability to implement and drive adoption of new processes/tools across teams.
• Strong communication across internal/external stakeholders.
• Networking across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Windows or Linux admin; Linux preferred.
• Experience using AI tools to improve efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Provision and configure servers/networks with Terraform and Kubernetes; automate lifecycles.
• Monitor performance using Datadog and other observability tools.
• Shape new ways of working; respond to incidents and drive recovery.
• Take ownership of incident resolution and drive improvements.
• Reduce MTTR, incident frequency, and on-call toil.
• Participate in on-call rota and respond to incidents.
• Identify automation opportunities to improve reliability.

Skills

SRE experience

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

AKS

Observability tools

Linux/Windows Admin

AI tools usage

Incident management

On-call experience

Networking

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AKS

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Azure Monitor

Linux

Windows

Job description

Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering role within a customer-facing environment such as SaaS or MSP
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure and on-premise virtual machines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Terraform
• Experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes or AKS
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Azure Monitor
• Ability to implement new processes and tools and drive adoption across development and support teams
• Strong communication skills across internal teams and external customers
• Skilled in networking across both cloud and on-premise environments
• Windows or Linux systems administration skills, with Linux preferred
• Previous use of AI tools to improve efficiency

Responsibilities

• Use technologies such as Terraform and Kubernetes to provision and configure servers and networks, and to automate application lifecycles
• Use Datadog and other observability tools to monitor application performance
• Implement new ways of working and help shape how the organisation responds to and recovers from incidents
• Take ownership of incident resolution
• Help reduce key reliability metrics including MTTR, incident frequency, and on-call toil
• Work on an on-call rota and respond to incidents during assigned periods
• Identify opportunities for automation and help implement changes that improve reliability

Technologies

• AI
• Azure
• Cloud
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Grafana
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Prometheus
• Terraform
• Windows

More

We are a well-established B2B SaaS company undergoing a significant platform transformation. We are hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build stability, support live incidents, and improve system upkeep while playing a key role in adopting new tooling and processes. This is a genuine opportunity to own and operate how our cloud function works, with the potential to progress into a team lead position as our team grows. The role is based in Milton Keynes with two days on site each week, and offers a salary of up to £70,000 plus bonus and an on-call allowance.

last updated 36 week of 2026