Site Reliability Engineer

LinuxRecruit; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

LinuxRecruit is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join a team dedicated to making systems more reliable, observable, and easier to operate at scale. The role emphasises engineering over firefighting, writing code, building tooling, improving telemetry, and automating repetitive work to prevent incidents.

You will work on building internal tooling, enhancing observability, defining SLIs/SLOs and creating dashboards used by engineers. Experience with large-scale environments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling and automation to remove manual effort and toil
• Improve observability through OpenTelemetry, logging and monitoring
• Define meaningful SLIs and SLOs for services
• Create dashboards that engineers actually rely on
• Work through incidents, perform root-cause analysis and fix problems
• Explore how AI and LLM tooling can reduce toil and improve operations

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Job description

If you've ever looked at a production issue and thought, "there has to be a better way than this", keep reading.

Most SRE adverts talk about keeping the lights on. This isn't really one of those.

This is with one of the biggest technology businesses you've probably interacted with without realising it. The scale is eye-opening: millions of users, millions of requests every day, and a platform that never really sleeps.

They're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join a team focused on making systems more reliable, observable and easier to operate. Less firefighting. More building the tools, automation and visibility that stop fires starting in the first place.

What I like about this role is that it's very much an engineering position. They're looking for people who see reliability as a software problem, not just an operations one. You'll be writing code, building tooling, improving telemetry, automating repetitive work and helping engineering teams create more resilient services.

A few examples of the sort of things you'll get involved in:

• Building internal tooling and automation to remove manual effort
• Improving observability through OpenTelemetry, logging and monitoring
• Defining meaningful SLIs and SLOs rather than measuring things for the sake of it
• Creating dashboards that people actually use
• Working through incidents, understanding root causes and fixing problems properly
• Exploring how AI and LLM tooling can help reduce toil and improve operational efficiency

They're also keen to speak with engineers who have operated within large-scale, highly available environments where uptime genuinely matters.

The biggest draw is the complexity of the problems. When you're supporting systems at this scale, small improvements can have a huge impact. It's the sort of environment where engineers get the freedom to solve interesting problems rather than simply react to them.

If you're an SRE who enjoys building, automating and making systems better, this is you.