Site Reliability Engineer

Paritas Recruitment; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 110,700 - 147,600; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking an AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a contract role in Glasgow. The candidate will support a cloud-native data platform for a major financial services organization, focusing on reliability engineering, automation, and observability. Key responsibilities include designing automation for infrastructure provisioning and managing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical data services. Strong AWS experience and SRE principles knowledge are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience applying SRE principles.
• Proven production experience with AWS services.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning.
• Lead resiliency and disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for data pipelines.
• Build and operate observability solutions across AWS and data platforms.
• Perform root cause analysis on incidents and drive improvements.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering principles

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch)

Automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)

Building observability and monitoring solutions

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks)

Job description

AWS Site Reliability Engineer (Data Platform) – Contract

Location: Glasgow

Contract Length: February 2026 – January 2027

Role Overview

We are recruiting an AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support a cloud-native data platform for a major international financial services organisation. The platform is built on AWS, with core components including Snowflake and Databricks, and underpins critical analytics and data services used across the business.

This role focuses on reliability engineering, automation, observability, and resilience. You will work closely with data engineering and platform teams to ensure the platform is scalable, highly available, and operationally robust in a regulated, high-availability environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, platform operations, and incident response using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD
• Lead resiliency and disaster recovery (DR) planning, including DR testing, failure scenarios, and recovery validation across AWS and data platform services
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical data pipelines and platform services, using error budgets to drive reliability improvements
• Build and operate comprehensive observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) across AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks workloads
• Partner with data engineering and platform teams to embed reliability-by-design into architecture and delivery
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on incidents and drive continuous improvement to reduce operational toil
• Own and drive resolution of incidents and service requests raised by platform consumers, identifying recurring issues and automating fixes to improve reliability and user experience

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong practical experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLO/SLI/SLA design and error budgets
• Proven production experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch)
• Hands‑on experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK)
• Experience building and operating observability and monitoring solutions
• Scripting experience in Python and/or Bash
• Exposure to data platforms such as Snowflake and/or Databricks