Site Reliability Engineer - Manchester

530 - 580 per day Inside IR35 via umbrella

Manchester

6-12 month contract

Role overview

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is an established engineer who independently runs and improves cloud services, taking ownership of defined services or components and the SLOs that go with them. They deliver engineering work with limited supervision, handle incidents confidently, and help develop less experienced colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Engineering and operations

  • Operates significant parts of the data management system in the area, seeking guidance from senior colleagues on complex or high-risk decisions.
  • Designs, builds and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling that remove manual toil.
  • Improves CI/CD pipelines and release safety for their services.
  • Carries out capacity planning, performance analysis and resilience testing.
  • Takes part in the on-call rota and troubleshoots independently across the stack.
  • Reviews peers' code and changes, and contributes to design discussions.

• Experience and behaviours

  • Essential

    • Several years of experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services.
    • Track record of improving reliability, and of responding to and learning from incidents.
    • Experience mentoring or onboarding less experienced engineers.
    • Clear written and verbal communication.

  • Desirable

    • GCP Professional certification, such as Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
    • Kubernetes certification, such as CKA or CKAD.
    • Experience with data platforms and data management systems.

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