Site Reliability Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health care

Life assurance

Laptop

Phone

Training resources and discounts

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services seeks a Senior GCP Cloud SRE Engineer to join our Public Cloud Platform in a hybrid UK role. You will drive reliability, automate infrastructure, and build scalable cloud services for the group and its clients.

You will work with Terraform, GKE, and modern observability tools, delivering resilient Google Cloud solutions and supporting rapid cloud adoption across teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Google SRE experience with strong SRE principles.
• GCP and Terraform certification or demonstrable proficiency.
• Experience with CI/CD, Kubernetes internals, and cloud tooling.

Responsibilities

• Drive GCP Site Reliability Engineering practices for high availability and performance.
• Own IaC with Terraform for consistent cloud provisioning.
• Implement and operate SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to improve reliability.
• Build end-to-end observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace and GCP Monitoring.
• Lead incident management, RCA, and triage for GKE/Kubernetes workloads.
• Automate workflows with Python scripting and CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce secure, compliant cloud environments via IaC and policy controls.
• Triage P1/P2 issues in Google Kubernetes or Google Cloud Run Serverless.

Skills

GCP SRE

Python scripting

Terraform

Backstage

Education

GCP and Terraform Certification

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Dynatrace

GCP Monitoring

GKE

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid)

Number of hours: 40 hours per week – full time

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in GCP ?

We have an exciting role for you – Senior GCP Cloud SRE Engineer

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Build strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Gain access to endless learning opportunities.
• Work closely with the range of teams within the business to bring products to life.

The Role

As an Senior GCP SRE Engineer you will be responsible to recruit to be part of our Public Cloud Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient Google Cloud Infra, product and DevOps capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to have rapid and seamless Google Cloud Adoption and build their business journeys more scalable, resilient and efficient . Your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being a highly experienced member of our wider Lloyds engineering team delivering change.

Your role as a GCP Cloud SRE involves driving reliability and scalability by leveraging DevOps best practices, automating cloud infrastructure through IaC, and curating reusable GCP platform services for engineering teams. You'll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive GCP Site Reliability Engineering practices to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of production systems.
• Own and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Terraform Cloud) for consistent, repeatable, and reliable infrastructure provisioning.
• Implement and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, improving service reliability and reducing MTTD/MTTR through data-driven engineering.
• Build and maintain end-to-end observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and GCP Monitoring across metrics, logs, and time-series data.
• Lead incident management, deep troubleshooting, and RCA, with strong expertise in GKE, Kubernetes internals, and containerized systems.
• Automate operational workflows and eliminate toil through Python scripting and orchestration, integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce secure, compliant, and resilient cloud environments via policy-driven IaC, GCP Org Policies, and standardized infrastructure patterns.
• Strong understanding on one of more GCP Cloud areas to triage and resolve critical P1/P2 issues – Google Kubernetes Containers or Google Cloud Networking or Google Cloud Run Serverless

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Hands on Google SRE engineer in the past with strong understanding on SRE principles
• Python Scripting.
• GCP and Terraform Certified
• Good to have experience working in an IDE Platform for Cloud Engineering (e.g. Backstage)

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity and inclusion motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected across our workforce implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.

You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join (these are optional). Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include 12 employee networks such as gender diversity, LGBTQIA+ & Allies, mental health, disability & neurodiversity inclusion and many more, as well as health & wellness initiatives and sports events and we sponsor the London Marathon.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.