Software Reliability Engineer - DevOps & CI/CD Leader

RE Partners Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

RE Partners Consulting seeks experienced Software Reliability Engineers to evangelize continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This hands-on role is roughly 70% coding and configuration, guiding development teams toward rapid and secure releases.

The position emphasizes practical DevOps and SRE principles, with focus on testing, automation, observability, and modern runtimes. Strong collaboration across teams is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of automation testing approaches and how to drive outcomes with AI support.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Highest quality coding skills.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices for critical systems.
• Experience with multiple CI/CD systems and deployment architectures.

Responsibilities

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challenges achieving safe, rapid release cadence.
• Wrap applications with a suite of tests, including smoke tests for deployment.
• Source and integrate test data, implement data masking in lower environments.
• Upgrade to supported runtimes (Java, NPM).
• Containerize applications where feasible.
• Upgrade open-source libraries to latest major versions and keep dependencies current.
• Implement continuous library updates using Renovate; improve source control and code reviews.
• Ensure security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorization.
• Simplify and automate deployment processes, incl. automated DB changes with Liquibase and Ansible.
• Introduce standard observability patterns.
• Overhaul exception handling and logging.

Skills

TDD

Automation testing

Java/TypeScript

CI/CD

Security practices

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Docker

OpenShift

Gradle

Maven

npm

Ansible

Linux

Spring

Job description

RE Partners Consulting seeks experienced Software Reliability Engineers to evangelize continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This hands-on role is roughly 70% coding and configuration, guiding development teams toward rapid and secure releases.

The position emphasizes practical DevOps and SRE principles, with focus on testing, automation, observability, and modern runtimes. Strong collaboration across teams is essential for success.