Senior SRE: Cloud, Kubernetes & Automation

Spencer Rose Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Spencer Rose Ltd. is urgently seeking Senior Site Reliability Engineers to transform a Tier-1 banking client in Manchester. This hybrid role requires hands-on work across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and automation to boost reliability and security.

You will design observability using Dynatrace, build Terraform modules, manage production Kubernetes, and drive CI/CD with Jenkins/Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions. Interviews in October week 1.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering SRE practices across cloud platforms and on production Kubernetes.
• Strong automation skills for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Proficient in observability tooling and incident response processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability, availability, scalability and performance improvements across GCP-hosted applications, platforms and shared services.
• Define and operate service level indicators, service level objectives and error-budget practices that connect technical health to customer impact.
• Design actionable observability using Dynatrace, including instrumentation, dashboards, distributed tracing, service health views and SLO-based alerting.
• Build modular, reusable and maintainable Terraform code for secure cloud infrastructure, platform services and environment provisioning.
• Administer production Kubernetes environments, covering cluster life cycle, workload deployment, capacity, upgrades, networking and platform troubleshooting.
• Automate operational activities and repetitive support work using Python, Groovy, Bash or PowerShell to reduce toil and improve consistency.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or equivalent tooling, with automated quality and deployment controls.
• Lead incident response, complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews; ensure corrective actions are tracked to completion.
• Embed security, resilience, monitoring and supportability into platform and application designs from the outset.
• Coach engineers, contribute reusable standards and patterns, and promote SRE and operational excellence across engineering communities.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Dynatrace

Observability

CI/CD

Python

Groovy

Bash

PowerShell

SRE practices

Tools

Dynatrace

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Spencer Rose Ltd. is urgently seeking Senior Site Reliability Engineers to transform a Tier-1 banking client in Manchester. This hybrid role requires hands-on work across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and automation to boost reliability and security.

You will design observability using Dynatrace, build Terraform modules, manage production Kubernetes, and drive CI/CD with Jenkins/Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions. Interviews in October week 1.