Senior SRE (AWS) – Hybrid On-Call & Platform Reliability

VIQU IT Recruitment

Kingston

On-site

GBP 68,000 - 83,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

VIQU IT Recruitment is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a B2B SaaS environment based in Milton Keynes, with two on-site days per week. You will manage cloud and on-prem infra using Terraform and Kubernetes to provision servers and automate lifecycle.

The role focuses on incident response, observability (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus), and improving MTTR, while collaborating with internal and customer teams; salary up to £75,000 with a bonus and on-call allowance.

Qualifications

Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar cloud/DevOps role in a customer-facing environment.

Responsibilities

Use Terraform and Kubernetes to manage, provision, and configure servers and networks, and automate application lifecycles.
Use Datadog and other observability tools to monitor application performance.
Implement new ways of working and help shape how we respond to and recover from incidents.
Take ownership of incident resolution.
Improve reliability metrics, including MTTR, incident frequency, and on-call toil, by evaluating incidents.
Participate in an on-call rota and respond to incidents while on call.
Identify automation opportunities and implement changes that improve reliability.