Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

JR United Kingdom; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in London seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to shape their infrastructure and operational strategies. Offering a competitive salary and flexible hybrid working, this role involves managing cloud infrastructure, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and leading incident responses. Ideal candidates will have extensive SRE or DevOps experience, strong AWS knowledge, and excellent communication skills, with opportunities for career progression in an innovative environment.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working model

Performance bonus

Comprehensive benefits package

Dedicated learning & development budget

Innovative team culture

Exciting global projects

Qualifications

• Extensive SRE or DevOps experience in cloud-native environments.
• Strong AWS expertise with EKS, MSK, RDS.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code and automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise cloud infrastructure for scalability and security.
• Design CI/CD pipelines for efficient product delivery.
• Lead incident response and production troubleshooting.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

Kubernetes

Automation

Incident Response

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Tools

GitlabCI

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

AWS Cloudwatch

Prometheus

Datadog

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31.05.2025

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15.07.2025

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Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Central London (Hybrid - c. 1-2 days per week)
Salary: £80,000 - £100,000 + benefits

Why Apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity for a seasoned Senior Site Reliability Engineer to take a lead role in shaping the infrastructure and operational strategy for one of the most innovative businesses in their market. Working with cutting-edge technology, this role offers high-impact challenges, meaningful collaboration, and excellent career progression.

Senior SRE Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, high availability, and security.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines for efficient product delivery.
• Lead deployment strategies and ensure smooth feature rollouts with minimal downtime.
• Define and manage monitoring, logging, and telemetry using tools like AWS Cloudwatch, Prometheus, and Datadog.
• Lead incident response and production troubleshooting with a proactive and preventative mindset.
• Drive automation initiatives with tools like GitlabCI, Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
• Champion infrastructure best practices and mentor junior team members.

Senior SRE Requirements

• Extensive experience in SRE or DevOps roles within high-availability, cloud-native environments.
• Strong expertise with AWS (including EKS, MSK, RDS, VPC design, encryption, and IAM).
• Experience with Kubernetes and Argo CD in production settings.
• Deep knowledge of application security protocols and infrastructure-level security practices.
• Real-time incident response skills.
• Proficient in infrastructure as code, monitoring, and automation.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Relevant certifications in AWS would be beneficial.

What's in it for me?

• A permanent full-time role with a growing tech leader in their field
• Flexible hybrid working model in London
• Competitive salary, performance bonus, and comprehensive benefits package.
• Dedicated learning & development budget.
• Innovative, inclusive, and collaborative team culture.
• Exciting projects with a global impact.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.