Senior SRE – AWS Cloud Reliability & Automation

MBDA S.A.S.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent aerospace and defense company is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) based in the UK. This position involves embedding SRE principles across high-impact platforms while modernizing legacy support systems. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in SRE or a related field, with strong expertise in AWS and DevSecOps practices. Competitive salary of £100,000 per annum plus a bonus and excellent benefits are offered.

Benefits

Bonus

Excellent Benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years in an SRE or closely related reliability/DevSecOps discipline.
• Strong knowledge of SRE practices: monitoring, observability, incident response, automation.
• Hands-on with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and container platforms (Docker / Kubernetes).
• Comfortable working with vendors, suppliers and internal product/engineering teams.
• Ability to communicate clearly and influence engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Embed SRE principles to improve availability, reliability, performance and incident response.
• Modernise legacy support by introducing automation, observability, shift-left practices and CI/CD.
• Work across multiple domains including web/mobile, payments, CRM, and cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with vendors and internal engineering teams; influence technical and financial decisions.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)

DevSecOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring and observability

Container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)

Job description

A prominent aerospace and defense company is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) based in the UK. This position involves embedding SRE principles across high-impact platforms while modernizing legacy support systems. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in SRE or a related field, with strong expertise in AWS and DevSecOps practices. Competitive salary of £100,000 per annum plus a bonus and excellent benefits are offered.