Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid & Cloud, Live Production

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IMG is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, operate, and continuously improve resilient, secure platforms underpinning its digital, cloud, and broadcast-adjacent services.

You will work with engineering, operations, and project stakeholders to enhance observability, incident response, automation, and disaster recovery readiness, while balancing engineering excellence with operational needs. Based at Stockley Park with hybrid options and occasional on-call duties.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and operating system fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling and modern software delivery practices.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tooling and observability solutions.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, system architecture, and distributed systems principles.
• Strong scripting or programming capability in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience working in high-availability, live production environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure and platform services across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Improve service availability, latency, performance, and operational efficiency through reliability practices.
• Build and enhance observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and service health indicators.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, alerting standards, and operational runbooks for critical services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and recovery using IaC and scripting.
• Collaborate with software, platform, broadcast engineering, and operations teams to improve release quality and resilience.
• Act as escalation point for production incidents, leading or supporting rapid diagnosis, mitigation, and post-incident follow-up.
• Support design, testing, and documentation of high availability, backup, failover, and disaster recovery, enforcing security and best practices.
• Optimise capacity, cost, and performance, and maintain clear technical documentation and handover materials.
• Support live events and critical workflows; participate in technical planning for new services and migrations.

Skills

Linux

Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Scripting

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

IMG is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, operate, and continuously improve resilient, secure platforms underpinning its digital, cloud, and broadcast-adjacent services.

You will work with engineering, operations, and project stakeholders to enhance observability, incident response, automation, and disaster recovery readiness, while balancing engineering excellence with operational needs. Based at Stockley Park with hybrid options and occasional on-call duties.