Site Reliability Engineer

Focus on WD; Euston; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus on WD is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability, scalability, and security of its cloud platform. This contract role starts ASAP for 3 months, with on-site presence in Central London one day per week.

The ideal candidate has a software engineering background and will focus on GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and modern deployment practices, working closely with Platform and Product Engineering teams to ensure applications are deployed and operated safely at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong software development background in Node.js or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps.
• Kubernetes and AWS expertise.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki for observability.
• Understanding cloud security, distributed systems, and production operations.

Responsibilities

• Improve deployment reliability and developer experience.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Automate operational processes and reduce toil.
• Drive best practices for operating resilient, secure production systems.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

AWS

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Cloud security

Distributed systems

Production operations

Job description

Role: Site Reliability Engineer

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 3 months

Rate: £600 per day (Inside IR35)

On site: 1 day per week in Central London

I'm looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with a software engineering background to help improve the reliability, scalability, and security of my client'scloud platform.

This role will focus heavily on GitHub Actions, ArgoCDand modern deployment practices, working closely with both Platform and Product Engineering teams to ensure applications are deployed and operated safely at scale.

Key Requirements

• Strong software development background (Node.js, TypeScript, or similar).
  


• Hands‑on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines.
  


• Strong ArgoCD and GitOps experience.
  


• Kubernetes and AWS expertise.
  


• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
  


• Understanding of cloud security, distributed systems, and production operations.
  

What You’ll Do

• Improve deployment reliability and developer experience.
  


• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
  


• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities.
  


• Automate operational processes and reduce toil.
  


• Drive best practices for operating resilient, secure production systems.
  

This is an excellent opportunity for a developer-turned-SRE/DevOps engineer who enjoys solving complex operational challenges and improving how software is delivered and supported in production.