Senior SRE Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Hybrid)

VodafoneThree; Newbury; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Pension plan

Learning tools

Job summary

VodafoneThree in Newbury is seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to run cloud platforms on AWS/EKS, design scalable, secure systems and partner with engineering and security teams. You will drive automation through IaC, CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, mentor engineers, and help reduce incidents with data-driven monitoring and AI-assisted tooling.

Join us in a hybrid role, delivering reliable services across the UK and shaping a secure, scalable digital future for

Qualifications

• Experience as Site Reliability Engineer with cloud and software engineering skills
• Experience with AWS and EKS
• Kubernetes and containerised workloads
• Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and developer platform tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
• Python and Go programming
• Leading production incident investigations and root-cause analysis
• Governance of AI-powered tooling for productivity and reliability
• Strong communication across engineers, architects and stakeholders
• Mentoring engineers and raising reliability maturity

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and improvement of cloud platforms running on AWS, ensuring they remain scalable, secure, reliable, cost-efficient and easy for teams to consume
• Drive a culture of 'build once, automate forever' by identifying repetitive operational work and replacing it with sustainable engineering solutions
• Enable engineering teams to leverage advanced metrics and tracing using Datadog to reduce SLA
• Partner with engineers, architects, security teams and product teams to build and operate platforms that enable rapid and safe delivery
• Design, build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, and engineering tooling to improve developer experience and operational excellence using Azure DevOps and Github Actions
• Lead improvements in logging, monitoring, alerting and operational visibility, helping teams make data-driven decisions and resolve issues quickly
• Participate in and improve the on-call experience, using engineering and automation to reduce operational burden and improve service resilience
• Coach and mentor engineers across the organisation, sharing knowledge and helping others develop modern SRE practices

Skills

AWS

EKS

Kubernetes

IaC

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Python

Go

Incident response

AI tooling governance

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Copilot

Job description

VodafoneThree in Newbury is seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to run cloud platforms on AWS/EKS, design scalable, secure systems and partner with engineering and security teams. You will drive automation through IaC, CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, mentor engineers, and help reduce incidents with data-driven monitoring and AI-assisted tooling.

Join us in a hybrid role, delivering reliable services across the UK and shaping a secure, scalable digital future for