Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Manchester

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, observability and operational health of cloud infrastructure in Manchester. You will use SLOs to decide which improvements matter and help grow the team capabilities.

The role involves designing infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, capacity planning and on-call support, working with development, security and product teams to bake reliability into delivery.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services at scale.
• Proven record of improving reliability against defined SLOs.
• Experience supervising, coaching or mentoring engineers.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Calm, structured problem solving under pressure during incidents.
• Desirable: relevant cloud certs (GCP, Kubernetes) and regulated environment exposure.

Responsibilities

• Manages development/operation of significant data management system aspects with guidance.
• Designs and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling to reduce manual toil.
• Improves release safety through CI/CD pipelines and rollback practices.
• Plans capacity and performance, conducts resilience and load testing.
• Participates in on-call rota and acts as escalation point.
• Collaborates with development, security and product teams to embed reliability in design/delivery.

Skills

SRE / DevOps

Mentoring engineers

Incident management

Communication

Problem solving under pressure

Job description

£650 - £750 per day Inside IR35 via umbrella

Manchester

6-12 month contract

Role overview

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) owns the reliability, observability and operational health of one or more areas of the cloud infrastructure, and leads the SREs working in that area. They use service level objectives (SLOs) to decide which operational improvements matter most, and they build the engineering capability of the team around them.

Responsibilities

Engineering and operations

• Manages the development and/or operation of significant aspects of the data management system, with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Designs, builds and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling that remove manual toil.
• Improves release safety through CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery and rollback practices.
• Plans capacity and performance, and carries out resilience, failover and load testing.
• Takes part in the on-call rota and acts as an escalation point for the area.
• Works with development, security and product teams to embed reliability in design and delivery.

Experience and behaviours

Essential

• Substantial experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services at scale.
• Proven record of improving reliability against defined SLOs.
• Experience supervising, coaching or mentoring engineers.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Calm, structured problem solving under pressure during incidents.

Desirable

• GCP certification, such as Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
• Kubernetes certification, such as CKA or CKAD.
• Experience with data platforms and data management systems.
• Experience in a regulated environment such as financial services.