Senior Site Reliability Engineer

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead their SRE team in London with options for hybrid work. The role requires strong expertise in AWS and observability tools, including Datadog, to enhance delivery across product groups. Ideal candidates will have leadership experience and a solid understanding of DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as an SRE Engineer.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog.
• Lead capabilities and willing to take on a leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SRE team and promote observability approaches across product groups.
• Guide daily operations and maintenance of observability tools.
• Support engineering teams with observability delivery.

Skills

AWS services

SRE Engineering

DevOps Tools

Monitoring tools

Datadog

Education

AWS certification

Tools

Git Hub

Terraform

Job description

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, london

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Client:

RED Global

Location:

london, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Views:

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Posted:

31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

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Job Description:

AWS Site reliability lead / SRE Lead

London UK

40% Hybrid working at the Stratford London Or Leeds / Rest is Full Remote

Contract role - 6 Months +

START ASAP

(Must be eligible for a SC clearance)

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the SRE team and Evangelise SRE Observability approach across product groups with the customer space.
• Providing the thought leadership of SRE from the delivery team
• Hands on experience in SRE Observability and leveraging Datadog as an observability tool (Infra and application)
• Review and guide the team for the day-to-day operations of observability tool and maintenance of observability tools.
• Support engineering teams directly with delivery of their observability backlog on a demand basis.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Strong Experience with primary role of SRE Engineer
• Strong experience in Devops Tools (Git Hub, Git Hub Actions, Workflow, CodeQL Jenkins, Nexus, CloudFormation/Terraform etc.)
• Strong experience in monitoring tool (Datadog is preferred)
• Strong Knowledge of AWS services EC2, ELB, ECS, S3, Config, CloudTrail, EFS, Lambda, VPC
• Has to work lead and willing to work lead

Nice to have.

• Knowledge of Docker or container-based systems
• Knowledge of Chef
• AWS certification

If this doesn't sound like you but you know of anyone who may be interested a referral would go along way!