Site Reliability Engineer - Manchester

ARM; Manchester; On-site; GBP 98,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyra is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Manchester to independently run and improve cloud services, owning defined services and SLOs. The role requires incident handling and mentoring junior engineers.

You will design and operate infrastructure as code, enhance CI/CD pipelines, perform capacity planning, and participate in on-call rotations across the stack. Strong communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services.
• Track record of improving reliability, and of responding to and learning from incidents.
• Experience mentoring or onboarding less experienced engineers.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Operates significant parts of the data management system and seeks guidance on complex decisions.
• Designs, builds and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling.
• Improves CI/CD pipelines and release safety.
• Carries out capacity planning, performance analysis and resilience testing.
• Takes part in the on-call rota and troubleshoots independently across the stack.
• Reviews peers' code and contributes to design discussions.

Skills

SRE experience

Incident response

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Job description

530 - 580 per day Inside IR35 via umbrella

Manchester

6-12 month contract

Role overview

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is an established engineer who independently runs and improves cloud services, taking ownership of defined services or components and the SLOs that go with them. They deliver engineering work with limited supervision, handle incidents confidently, and help develop less experienced colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Engineering and operations

  • Operates significant parts of the data management system in the area, seeking guidance from senior colleagues on complex or high-risk decisions.
  • Designs, builds and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling that remove manual toil.
  • Improves CI/CD pipelines and release safety for their services.
  • Carries out capacity planning, performance analysis and resilience testing.
  • Takes part in the on-call rota and troubleshoots independently across the stack.
  • Reviews peers' code and changes, and contributes to design discussions.

• Experience and behaviours

  • Essential

    • Several years of experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services.
    • Track record of improving reliability, and of responding to and learning from incidents.
    • Experience mentoring or onboarding less experienced engineers.
    • Clear written and verbal communication.

  • Desirable

    • GCP Professional certification, such as Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
    • Kubernetes certification, such as CKA or CKAD.
    • Experience with data platforms and data management systems.