Site Reliability Engineer 12 Month FTC Stratford-upon-Avon

NFU Mutual; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK insurance company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Observability) to enhance their monitoring capabilities. In this hybrid role, you will deploy tools like Dynatrace and work in a supportive team to ensure high service quality. The ideal candidate has a strong background in observability, IT event management, and relevant systems, with competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Annual bonus up to 17.5% of salary

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Contributory pension scheme up to 20%

Health and wellbeing plan

Access to voluntary benefits

Employee Volunteering day annually

Discounts on NFU Mutual insurance policies

Qualifications

• Experience with Dynatrace and Grafana essential.
• Knowledge of ITIL Foundation is required.
• Familiarity with scripting languages like Python or PowerShell is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Deliver continuous improvement in monitoring and observability services.
• Deploy new monitoring tooling for application and infrastructure.
• Support monitoring across the IT estate to enhance services.

Skills

Observability

IT Event Management

Network Fundamentals

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

Education

ITIL Foundation

Tools

Dynatrace

Grafana

PagerDuty

InfluxDB

Windows Servers

Job description

• Deliver continuous improvement as part of a supportive team to provide a reliable monitoring and observability service to NFU Mutual
• Deploy exciting new tooling to support project delivery
• Hybrid up to 80% homeworking available and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer (Observability) to join our Monitoring Team within IT Infrastructure Products on a 12-month fixed term contract. You’ll play a key role in the continual development of effective solutions to fulfil application, infrastructure, and network monitoring, as well as the support and general maintenance of our various tools including Dynatrace, Grafana, PagerDuty, and InfluxDB.

In this role, you’ll be part of a supportive, technically focused team delivering work in an Agile DevOps approach to business requirements. You’ll work with the business and 3 rd party suppliers to ensure that our portfolio of applications and infrastructure services are operating effectively and deliver value through proactive monitoring.

As aSite Reliability Engineer, you’ll be responsible for deploying new monitoring tooling across our IT estate to support high-profile change activities, understanding the key business processes, and using your knowledge of Metrics, Logs and Traces to establish accurate performance baselines and alerting. You will offer best practice guidance to our IT and business teams as an authority on observability and will work with our architecture and design teams to incorporate an effective monitoring strategy into new solutions.

About you

As aSite Reliability Engineer, you’ll use your knowledge and experience of observability and IT Event Management to deliver excellent results across a varied IT estate. You’ll have knowledge of network fundamentals and possess the ITIL Foundation, having the ability to work well independently but also as part of a team to problem solve and innovate. With a focus on quality, you’re passionate about technology and analysis and have excellent time management skills. You’ll have supported a range of applications and infrastructure previously and have experience monitoring aspects of service, infrastructure, and network performance.

To join our team, you’ll have:

• Exposure to Dynatrace, Grafana, PagerDuty & InfluxDB (essential)
• Experience with Windows Servers operating systems (essential)
• Awareness of agile development methodologies (essential)
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell (desirable)
• ITIL Foundation or working towards (desirable)

Internally this role is known as Site Reliability Engineer.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team,you can expecta supportive cultureandanattractive range ofrewards and benefitsincluding:

• Salary £43,550 - £50,000 Dependent upon experience
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan- cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteerin the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance coverof 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

Working at NFU Mutual

We’reone of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 yearswe’veput our customers at the heart of everything we do.Ourpeopleare just as important to us.

Wepride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction but also named us as the first UK-based company to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace for ten years in a row. We are also the only Insurer to feature in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of ‘Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK’, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer focused, down-to-earth and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from.

Our ethos - of trust, respect and personal service - lies at the heart of all we do and has seen us build an enviable reputation for exceptional member loyalty. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future. And that’s why we’re looking for talented people to join our growing organisation. Talented people like you.