Site Reliability Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Bradford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead technical excellence in software engineering. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with architects and developers to implement robust engineering standards, enhance CI/CD platforms, and drive innovation. Your expertise will ensure high availability and performance of applications, while you champion FinOps initiatives and reduce technical debt. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and the chance to make a significant impact on enterprise-scale SRE practices.

Benefits

15% colleague discount

Generous holiday entitlement

4.5 day working week

Flexible working hours

Company pension contributions

Perks with over 850 retailers

Free parking onsite

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of SRE/Engineering practices.
• Strong experience with outsourced delivery suppliers.
• Minimum of 3 years in technical SRE/Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME for CI/CD and SRE/Engineering standards.
• Drive adoption of Continuous Delivery principles.
• Monitor and resolve complex issues to ensure reliability.

Skills

SRE/Engineering

CI/CD

Cloud hosting (AWS preferred)

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring frameworks

GitHub/Bitbucket/SVN

Jenkins

Docker/Containerisation

Terraform

Junit/Selenium

Education

HND or higher in systems development

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Terraform

AWS Frameworks (ECS, EC2/3, Lambda, Fargate, S3)

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As a Site Reliability Engineer at Morrisons, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and driving excellence in software engineering and reliability across multiple domains. Acting as a technical lead, you’ll collaborate with Technical Architects, Lead Software Developers, and supplier engineering teams to define and implement robust engineering standards and principles.

Your expertise will contribute to maintaining and enhancing automated CI/CD platforms, secure coding practices, and observability frameworks, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency. You’ll champion innovation, technical improvement, and FinOps initiatives, while proactively reducing technical debt and enhancing automation.

With a focus on monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving complex issues, you’ll drive continual improvement and ensure Morrisons’ applications and infrastructure are resilient, efficient, and aligned with architectural goals. This is a key role for those passionate about advancing SRE practices at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME within their Domain teams for advice & guidance in terms of CI/CD, automation and product ways of working and SRE/Engineering standards
• Drive the adoption of Engineering standards and Continuous Delivery principles within multiple domains
• The escalation point for SRE/Engineering ways of working
• Influence good practices and standards within SDLC throughout the business
• Influence partners Infrastructure best practices
• Implementation of least privilege approach for services
• Monitoring and Alerting strategy and patterns
• Engineering Tooling, Patterns, Framework and Standards
• Proprietary code quality management inclusive of technical debt

About you

Knowledge

• In depth understanding of SRE/ Engineering, Architecture and Testing practices
• In depth understanding of the principals of CI/CD within SRE/Engineering
• In depth understanding of Cloud hosting (AWS preferred) principals and managing infrastructure as code
• In depth understanding of software/infrastructure application monitoring frameworks
• Excellent understanding of Product Team structures and principals.

Skills

• Technical skills
• A broad spectrum of different coding languages.
• GitHub/Bitbucket/SVN
• Jenkins
• Docker/Containerisation
• Terraform
• AWS Frameworks (ECS, EC2/3, Lambda, fargate, S3)
• Junit/Selenium
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to take solid technical decisions under broad direction.
• Flexible in approach and able to apply pragmatism where necessary.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
• Experience working with 3rd party software development teams
• In depth experience of SDLC’s
• Versatile approach to adapt with dynamic methodologies for internal projects.

Experience

• Strong experience of working with outsourced delivery suppliers
• Minimum of 3 years technical SRE/Engineering
• HND or higher within systems development, computer science or similar subjects
• Any experience within incident management, such as helpdesk experience and managing tickets to support availability, uptime and critical service

About us

Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.

We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
• Generous holiday entitlement
• 4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
• Company pension contributions
• Perks with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave