Senior Software Reliability Engineer — DevOps & Automation

RE Partners; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

RE Partners, a fast-growing software reliability engineering and DevOps consultant, seeks experienced Software Reliability Engineers to advocate for CI, testing, and safe automated deployments. The role involves hands-on coding (roughly 70%) and configuration in a practical, practitioner-led environment for development teams.

Join a collaborative, engineering-driven setting with a strong emphasis on hands-on engineering, autonomy, problem solving, and cross-team impact.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Strong ability to choose automation testing approaches and drive outcomes with AI support.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Highest quality coding skills.
• Solid understanding of secure coding practices for critical systems.
• Experience with multiple CI/CD systems.
• Comfort with build automation tools (Gradle, Maven, npm).
• Competent with Linux (RedHat).
• Spring framework skills are advantageous.
• Ansible skills are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams to improve release cadence and vulnerability resolution.
• Wrap applications with a suite of tests, including smoke tests for deployment.
• Source and integrate test data and implement data masking in lower environments.
• Upgrade runtimes and dependencies and keep systems current.
• Containerize applications where feasible.
• Implement continuous library updates using Renovate and improve code review processes.
• Ensure security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorisation.
• Automate deployment processes including DB changes with Liquibase and automation with Ansible.
• Introduce standard observability patterns and improve logging and exception handling.
• Implement resilient cross-datacenter deployment topologies.

Skills

Test-Driven Development

Automation testing

JVM/TypeScript

Secure coding practices

CI/CD

AI-assisted coding

Build automation

Tools

Docker

Openshift

Gradle

Maven

npm

Ansible

Linux (RedHat)

Liquibase

Renovate

Job description

RE Partners, a fast-growing software reliability engineering and DevOps consultant, seeks experienced Software Reliability Engineers to advocate for CI, testing, and safe automated deployments. The role involves hands-on coding (roughly 70%) and configuration in a practical, practitioner-led environment for development teams.

Join a collaborative, engineering-driven setting with a strong emphasis on hands-on engineering, autonomy, problem solving, and cross-team impact.