SRE Placement Engineer: Real-World Infra & Reliability

Symphony; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hands-on SRE projects

Mentorship and guidance from senior/de

Opportunity to expand technical skills

Networking opportunities

Understand Symphony's products

Job summary

Symphony is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Placement Student to join our Infrastructure team. You will work with senior engineers on cloud-native architectures, containers, automated deployments, and reliability monitoring to keep our enterprise platform scalable and resilient.

You will gain hands-on experience with IaC, CI/CD, and incident triage while contributing to SLIs/SLOs. The role includes mentorship and networking within the industry.

Qualifications

• Education: Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related field.
• Proficient in at least one modern language: Python, Go, Java, or Bash.
• Strong Linux basics and RESTful APIs knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Automation: write and maintain IaC and automation scripts.
• Monitoring & Observability: build dashboards and alerts (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Incident Response & RCA: shadow mentors during triage and document post-mortems.
• Performance & Reliability: analyze bottlenecks and stress test services.
• CI/CD: maintain and improve pipelines for safe releases.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Bash

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering/Software Engineering

Job description

Symphony is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Placement Student to join our Infrastructure team. You will work with senior engineers on cloud-native architectures, containers, automated deployments, and reliability monitoring to keep our enterprise platform scalable and resilient.

You will gain hands-on experience with IaC, CI/CD, and incident triage while contributing to SLIs/SLOs. The role includes mentorship and networking within the industry.