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Site Reliability Engineer
£48,000 - 88,000
Sphere Digital Recruitment
Red Lion Street 20, London
£48,000 - 88,000
Requirements
Must:
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD systems with deployment safety practices
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering, or systems engineering roles
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts, including consistency and failure handling
- Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), including multi-region environments
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Python, or Java
- Proven experience managing high-severity incidents and leading remediation efforts
- Experience with multi-region or multi-cloud architectures (preferred)
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog (preferred)
- Previous mentoring or technical leadership experience (preferred)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation (preferred)
- Exposure to AI-assisted tooling for incident analysis or operational efficiency (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term preventative improvements
- Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets aligned with business and customer outcomes
- Lead complex incident management, post-incident reviews, and remediation planning
- Review and influence system architecture to improve scalability, availability, and fault isolation
- Design strategies for high availability, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery
- Evaluate trade-offs between performance, cost, and operational risk
- Improve deployment pipelines and implement automation to reduce risk and accelerate delivery
- Implement safe deployment strategies such as canary releases and blue/green deployments
- Ensure strong rollback and recovery mechanisms
- Build and enhance observability solutions including metrics, logging, and tracing
- Work with teams to reduce alert fatigue and improve signal quality
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks across infrastructure and applications
- Design and operate cloud-native, containerised workloads at scale
- Use Infrastructure as Code to build and manage resilient platforms
- Develop automation to reduce manual effort and operational risk
- Mentor engineers and promote SRE best practices across teams
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and security stakeholders to improve system reliability
Description
We are a dynamic organization seeking a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer to play a key role in enhancing the reliability, scalability, and operational performance of our production systems. This 12-month contract position offers hybrid working options and a competitive rate of £400-550 per day depending on experience. As part of our centralized Technical Operations function, you will lead reliability initiatives and support a range of large-scale, customer-facing digital services while maintaining shared responsibility for production reliability, resilience, and scalability. Join us to make a meaningful impact on high-traffic systems used by a global audience.
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