Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GCP
I'm recruiting for a Senior GCP Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, scalability and performance of cloud-hosted services.
This is a hands-on engineering role covering GCP, production Kubernetes, Terraform and Dynatrace, with a strong focus on automation, observability and reducing manual operational work.
This is a long term contract based in Manchester (hybrid) and inside IR35 paying circa £500 a day.
Key responsibilities:

• Improve availability, resilience and performance across GCP applications and platforms.
• Define SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to measure service health and guide improvements.
• Build actionable Dynatrace dashboards, distributed tracing and SLO-based alerting.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and administer production Kubernetes environments.
• Automate operational tasks and enhance CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis and improvements that prevent repeat failures.

Experience required:

• Strong hands-on GCP engineering and production operations.
• Proven SRE experience across reliability, resilience and observability.
• Dynatrace instrumentation, monitoring and alerting.
• Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker and Linux/Unix.
• CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Scripting with Python, Groovy, Bash or PowerShell.
• Strong troubleshooting, cloud networking and security knowledge.

GCP certification and experience within financial services or another regulated environment would be advantageous.