Site Reliability Engineer - Manchester

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 98,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd in Manchester is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own and improve cloud services, delivering reliable systems with limited supervision.

The role covers design and operation of infrastructure as code, CI/CD improvements, incident response, on-call support, and mentoring of junior engineers. Candidacy benefits from SRE/DevOps background and cloud data platform experience.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services.
• Track record of improving reliability and incident response.
• Experience mentoring or onboarding less experienced engineers.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• GCP Professional certification (e.g., Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer).
• Kubernetes certification (CKA/CKAD).
• Experience with data platforms and data management systems.

Responsibilities

• Operates significant parts of the data management system in the area with guidance from seniors.
• Designs and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling to remove toil.
• Improves CI/CD pipelines and release safety for services.
• Performs capacity planning, performance analysis and resilience testing.
• Participates in on-call rota and troubleshoots across the stack.
• Reviews peers' code and contributes to design discussions.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps

Incident response

Mentoring

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.