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Site Reliability Engineer
£59,000 - 99,000
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Wimbledon Hill Road 51, London
£59,000 - 99,000
Requirements
Must:
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, and consistency models
- Hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS, GCP, or Azure (multi-region)
- Strong Kubernetes experience in large-scale production environments
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java for tooling and automation
- Proven experience leading high-severity incidents and driving cross-team remediation
- Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems with deployment safety guardrails
Preferred:
- Multi-cloud or multi-region resilience experience
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar observability stacks
- Prior mentorship or technical leadership experience
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools
- Exposure to AI-assisted tooling for incident analysis or operational insights
Responsibilities
- Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term preventative improvements
- Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets aligned to customer and business outcomes
- Lead high-severity incident response, post-incident reviews, and remediation planning
- Influence system architecture to improve scalability, availability, and failure isolation
- Design multi-region HA, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery strategies
- Evaluate trade-offs between performance, cost, and operational risk
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines with automation and safety guardrails
- Implement safe deployment patterns (canary, blue/green, progressive delivery)
- Ensure robust rollback and recovery mechanisms
- Build and evolve observability tooling across metrics, logs, and traces
- Reduce alert fatigue and improve signal quality
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks across infrastructure and applications
- Design and operate cloud-native and containerised workloads at scale
- Use IaC to build resilient, repeatable platforms
- Develop automation frameworks that eliminate manual toil
- Mentor mid-level engineers and champion SRE best practices
- Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to embed reliability into system design
Description
Join one of the worlds most recognizable entertainment brands as we scale our global digital commerce platform. In this high-impact role, youll be part of a centralized Technical Operations function supporting revenue-critical services used by millions of players worldwide. We offer a competitive salary plus bonus, a hybrid working model, excellent pension, healthcare, and wellbeing benefits, along with the opportunity to influence global-scale systems.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 105 different DevOps jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good DevOps.