Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure focused)

Up to £75,000 per annum plus bonus + on call allowance

Milton Keynes (2 days on site a week)

VIQU have partnered with a well-established SaaS company who are going through a significant platform transformation. and so are hiring for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build stability, respond to live incidents, and assist with system upkeep. The role will also play a key part in on implementing and adopting new tooling and processes surrounding the wider transformation.

This is a genuine opportunity to own and operate how the cloud function works, and progress into a team lead position as the team grows.

The client is hiring for two seperate roles, one focused on their Azure platform, another focused on their AWS platform. Both roles require hands on experience with IaC, Containerisation and Monitoring/Observability tools.

Experience required for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer:

• Previous experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar (cloud, infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering) within a customer facing environment - eg SaaS or MSP.
• Strong hands-on experience with both Azure, and on-premise virtual machines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code/Terraform, Container orchestration (Kubernetes or AKS), and Monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Azure Monitor).
• Ability to implement new processes, and tools, ensuring the wider development and support teams adopts new ways of working.
• Ability to communicate across internal teams and external customers.
• Skilled in networking across both Azure and on premise environments.
• Either Windows or Linux systems administration skills (Linux preferred).
• Previous use of AI tools to enhance efficiency.

Job Duties of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Utilise various technologies (Terraform, Kubernetes ect) to manage provision, and configure Servers and networks, and automate application life cycles.
• Regularly use Datadog and other observability tools for application performance monitoring.
• Implement new ways of working, helping to shape how the organisation responds and recovers to incidents.
• Take ownership of incident resolutions.
• Actively drive down key reliability metrics (MTTR, incident frequency, on-call toil) by evaluating key incidents.
• Work on an a on call rota, ensuring you are available to respond to incidents during this time.
• Identify areas for automation and help implement changes that raise the bar for reliability.

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