Senior SRE (AWS)

VIQU IT; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site 2 days/week

Bonus

On-call allowance

Referral bonus up to £1,000

Job summary

VIQU IT is recruiting a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on AWS in Milton Keynes. You will own cloud stability, respond to live incidents, implement tooling improvements, and support a major platform transformation for a B2B SaaS environment.

This role involves on-site work two days per week, collaboration with engineering and product teams, and opportunities to progress into a team lead. Strong hands-on AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Prior SRE/DevOps experience in a SaaS or MSP customer environment.
• Strong hands-on AWS and on-premise VM experience.
• Experience with IaC and container orchestration, monitoring and observability tools.
• Ability to drive new tooling adoption and process improvements.
• Excellent cross-team communication and incident handling skills.
• Networking across cloud and on-prem environments; Linux preferred.

Responsibilities

• Use Terraform and Kubernetes to provision and configure servers and networks.
• Regularly employ Datadog and other observability tools for performance monitoring.
• Shape incident response processes and drive rapid recovery.
• Own incident resolutions and reduce MTTR and toil.
• Participate in on-call rotations and coordinate with teams.
• Identify automation opportunities to raise reliability.

Skills

AWS

Cloud experience

Incident response

SaaS/MSP experience

On-call experience

Communication

Networking

Linux

Windows

AI tooling

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

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 - e.g 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 lifecycles.
• 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.

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