Senior SRE (AWS)

VIQU Ltd; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

On-call allowance

On-site 2 days/week

Job summary

VIQU Ltd is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own cloud stability and incident response for a growing B2B SaaS platform. You will drive automation, observability, and tooling adoption while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

You will work primarily with AWS and on-premise VMs, implementing IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes, and monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. On-site presence is required two days per week in Milton Keynes.

Qualifications

• 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 AWS, and on-premise virtual machines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code/Terraform, Container orchestration (Kubernetes), 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.

Responsibilities

• Utilise various technologies (Terraform, Kubernetes ect) to manage provision, and configure Servers and networks, and automate application life cycles.
• 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.

Skills

Cloud & DevOps

Incident response

Cross-team communication

On-call rotation

Cloud networking

Linux/Windows admin

AI tooling usage

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Azure Monitor

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS focused)

Up to £75,000 + bonus + 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 - eg SaaS or MSP.
• Strong hands-on experience with both AWS, and on-premise virtual machines.
• Experience withInfrastructure as Code/Terraform, Container orchestration (Kubernetes), 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 life cycles.
• 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.