Senior SRE: Cloud Reliability, Observability & DevSecOps

Akkodis; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to establish reliability capabilities across programmes, improving observability, SRE practices, and security-by-design across Azure and AWS environments. You will lead monitoring consolidation, define SLIs/SLOs, and design a unified observability framework while maturing IaC with Terraform and supporting CI/CD pipelines.

The role focuses on proactive reliability, on-call collaboration, and continuous service improvement in a hybrid cloud setting,

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, or Production Operations.
• Observability across Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, KQL, AWS CloudWatch, and APM tooling.
• Strong Microsoft Azure knowledge, including VMs, networking, storage, Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, PaaS, and governance services.
• Strong AWS knowledge, including EC2, Auto Scaling, load balancers, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty.
• Experience defining, implementing, and managing SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability reporting frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience with Git-based source control platforms such as GitHub, Azure DevOps Repos, or GitLab, including PRs and code reviews.
• Experience supporting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience embedding DevSecOps practices into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Establish reliability engineering as a core capability across Akkodis programmes.
• Drive transition from reactive incident management to preventative reliability engineering with monitoring, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs and error budgets; optimise alerting frameworks.
• Design a target observability architecture providing a unified view across Azure and AWS.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; support CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Embed security-by-design principles into engineering and deployment pipelines; improve operational security and compliance.
• Contribute to cloud governance, cost optimisation, and operational readiness across Azure and AWS.
• Participate in on-call rotation; investigate incidents and perform RCA.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

DevSecOps

Cloud Engineering

Production Operations

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to establish reliability capabilities across programmes, improving observability, SRE practices, and security-by-design across Azure and AWS environments. You will lead monitoring consolidation, define SLIs/SLOs, and design a unified observability framework while maturing IaC with Terraform and supporting CI/CD pipelines.

The role focuses on proactive reliability, on-call collaboration, and continuous service improvement in a hybrid cloud setting,