Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AWS Kubernetes

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a new team focused on cloud technologies and infrastructure management. This role involves designing and implementing solutions that ensure high reliability and performance across various platforms. Candidates should have a strong background in AWS, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices, along with experience in infrastructure optimization and network security.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing and optimizing a diverse infrastructure stack.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage robust infrastructure solutions.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of infrastructure.

Skills

Infrastructure Management

Cloud Platforms

Network Security

Scripting

DevOps Practices

Tools

AWS CloudWatch

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AWS Kubernetes, London

Client: Source Technology

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

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Posted:

12.05.2025

Expiry Date:

26.06.2025

Job Description:

A truly unique opportunity to help launch a brand new team within a global financial services provider. This new team of highly skilled Full Stack Infrastructure Engineers will cover Compute, Storage, Network, and Cloud technologies. You will help design, implement, and manage robust infrastructure solutions, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.

Requirements:

• Proven experience managing and optimizing a diverse infrastructure stack.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Solid understanding of virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration.
• Understanding of storage solutions (SAN, NAS, cloud storage) and backup systems.
• Strong understanding of network protocols, routing, switching, and firewalls.
• Experience with load balancers (F5, HAProxy, Nginx) and network monitoring tools.
• Experience in DNS management and troubleshooting.
• Experience in network security best practices.
• Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline management and DevOps practices.
• Strong understanding of disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Experience with performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Understanding of chaos engineering principles and practices.
• Skills in cost optimization for cloud infrastructure.

Specific Tools and Techniques:

• Experience in using cloud native monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Google Cloud Operations Suite.
• Experience with packet capture tools like Wireshark for troubleshooting network issues.
• Experience in using traceroute utilities and performance analysis tools like perf for identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with tools such as ipconfig/ifconfig for viewing network configurations, flushing DNS, and diagnosing network issues.
• Experience with SNMP-based tools for network device monitoring and performance management.
• Experience in using NetFlow for network traffic analysis.
• Experience with tools like iostat, vmstat, and dstat for monitoring storage and system performance.
• Experience in tools like df, du, lsblk, and fdisk for managing and troubleshooting file systems and disk partitions.
• Familiarity with tools like Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability.