Senior SRE: Cloud Reliability & Observability Lead

ARM; Ringway; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

ARM is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability and observability of cloud infrastructure in Manchester. You will drive SLO-based improvements, lead SREs and collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed reliability into design and delivery.

Responsibilities include building IaC, CI/CD improvements, capacity planning, and on-call escalation. This role requires strong communication and a calm, methodical approach to incidents.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services at scale.
• Proven record of improving reliability against defined SLOs.
• Experience supervising, coaching or mentoring engineers.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Calm, structured problem solving under pressure during incidents.

Responsibilities

• Manages the development and/or operation of significant aspects of the data management system, with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Designs, builds and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling that remove manual toil.
• Improves release safety through CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery and rollback practices.
• Plans capacity and performance, and carries out resilience, failover and load testing.
• Takes part in the on-call rota and acts as an escalation point for the area.
• Works with development, security and product teams to embed reliability in design and delivery.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

Reliability improvement

Mentoring engineers

Technical communication

Incident management

Job description

ARM is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability and observability of cloud infrastructure in Manchester. You will drive SLO-based improvements, lead SREs and collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed reliability into design and delivery.

Responsibilities include building IaC, CI/CD improvements, capacity planning, and on-call escalation. This role requires strong communication and a calm, methodical approach to incidents.