Senior Site Reliability Engineer

VIQU IT Recruitment; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

VIQU IT Recruitment is partnering with a well-established B2B SaaS company to hire a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Milton Keynes (2 days on-site per week). You will build stability, respond to live incidents, and help with the platform transformation, owning how the cloud function works and guiding tooling adoption.

The role offers up to £75,000 with bonus and on-call allowance, plus opportunities to progress into a team lead as the team grows, and to work across Azure and hybrid

Qualifications

• Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar in a SaaS/MSP environment.
• Strong hands-on Azure and on-premises VM experience.
• Experience with IaC/Terraform, container orchestration (Kubernetes/AKS), and observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor).
• Ability to implement new processes and tools and drive adoption across teams.
• Strong communication across internal teams and external customers.
• Networking across cloud (Azure) and on-prem environments.
• Windows or Linux systems administration (Linux preferred).
• Experience with AI tooling to enhance efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Utilise Terraform and Kubernetes to provision and configure servers and networks and automate lifecycles.
• Regularly use Datadog and other observability tools for performance monitoring.
• Implement new working methods and help shape incident response.
• Own incident resolutions and drive improvements.
• Actively reduce MTTR and incident frequency by evaluating key incidents.
• Participate in an on-call rota to respond to incidents.
• Identify areas for automation and implement changes to raise reliability.

Skills

SRE experience

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Communication

Networking

Linux

AI tools

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Azure Monitor

AKS

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Up to £75,000 plus bonus and on call allowance

Milton Keynes (2 days on site a week)

VIQU have partnered with a well-established B2B SaaS company who are going through a significant platform transformation. and so are hiring for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build stability, respond to live incidents, and assist with system upkeep. The role will also play a key part in on implementing and adopting new tooling and processes surrounding the wider transformation.

This is a genuine opportunity to own and operate how the cloud function works, and progress into a team lead position as the team grows.

Experience required for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• 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 Azure, and on-premise virtual machines.

• Experience withInfrastructure as Code / Terraform, Container orchestration (Kubernetes or AKS), 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.

Job Duties of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Utilise various technologies (Terraform, Kubernetes ect) to manage provision, and configure servers and networks, and automate application lifecycles.
• 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.