Site Reliability Engineer

Dabster; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Dabster in Leeds is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead production systems on Kubernetes (GKE) across public cloud environments. You will architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and drive reliability through monitoring and incident response.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, performance tuning, and collaboration with development and operations teams to automate deploys and improve fault tolerance using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes clusters on GKE.
• Experience with Terraform and automation of cloud infrastructure.
• CI/CD pipeline management using Jenkins.
• Solid understanding of SRE principles (incident management, blameless postmortems, capacity planning, and error budgets).
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana (OpenTelemetry).
• Exposure to GitOps tools like Flux.

Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor, and optimize large-scale Kubernetes clusters hosted on public cloud platforms (GKE).
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve system reliability and deployment automation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Automate operational tasks using Python or other scripting languages.
• Contribute to observability and monitoring improvements using modern tools and best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response processes.

Skills

SRE principles

Incident management

Capacity planning

Error budgets

Python scripting

Troubleshooting

Communication

Blameless postmortems

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (GKE)

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Flux (GitOps)

Job description

• Manage, monitor, and optimize large-scale Kubernetes clusters hosted on public cloud platforms (Google GKE).


• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.


• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve system reliability and deployment automation.


• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.


• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.


• Automate operational tasks using Python or other scripting languages.


• Contribute to observability and monitoring improvements using modern tools and best practices.


• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response processes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 4-8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.


• Strong hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production (GKE).


• Proficiency with Terraform and cloud infrastructure automation.


• Practical experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline management.


• Sound understanding of SRE principles (incident management, blameless postmortems, capacity planning, error budgets, etc.).


• Good programming or scripting skills in Python (preferred) or similar languages.


• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for observability.


• Exposure to GitOps practices and tools (e.g. Flux).