Site Reliability Engineer

Searchability; Wigan; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established UK organisation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance its SRE function. This role offers a competitive salary of up to £70,000 and hybrid working, requiring only three days a week onsite in Greater Manchester. Candidates will work with modern cloud-native tooling like AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, ensuring the scalability and reliability of critical digital platforms while collaborating across various teams to enhance system performance.

Benefits

Exposure to cloud-native tooling

High-impact role

Strong engineering culture

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native tools and reliability practices.
• Strong background in high-availability systems.
• Ability to monitor and improve system health.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and performance of digital platforms.
• Refine SLAs / SLOs and error budgets.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain high standards.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Monitoring production systems

Designing scalable solutions

Job description

KEY POINTS

• Up to £70,000 salary
• Hybrid working with three days a week onsite in Greater Manchester
• Modern SRE environment with cloud-native tooling (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• High-availability digital platforms and performance-critical workloads

ABOUT THE CLIENT We’re supporting a well-established UK organisation recognised for operating large-scale, high-availability digital services. With continued investment into platform reliability and engineering maturity, they’re looking to appoint an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen a growing SRE function.

THE BENEFITS

• Exposure to modern cloud-native tooling and reliability practices
• High-impact role supporting major digital events
• Strong engineering culture with collaboration across product, operations and platform teams

THE SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER ROLE

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll ensure the reliability, performance and scalability of critical digital platforms. You’ll monitor production systems, refine SLAs / SLOs and error budgets, design scalable solutions, improve architecture through telemetry insights, and build dashboards that provide clear visibility of system health. You’ll also contribute to performance testing strategies and collaborate with engineering, operations and compliance teams to maintain high standards across the platform.