Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
4 days ago
West Drayton
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Location: London Salary: £100k pa + Bonus + Benefits I am looking for a number of SRE's for a large-scale digital organisation in the middle of a major engineering modernisation journey. This is not a BAU support role, this is a chance to help define what "good" looks like as SRE is brought fully in-house for the first time. You'll work across high-impact platforms (web/mobile, payments, CRM, operations, cloud) and play a key role in shifting the organisation away from ticket-driven support and towards proactive, automated, AWS-first, engineering-led reliability. Responsibilities • Embed SRE principles to improve availability, reliability, performance and incident response, • Modernise legacy support by introducing automation, observability, shift-left practices and CI/CD, • Work across multiple domains (web/mobile, payments, CRM, cloud infrastructure, airline systems), • Partner with vendors and internal engineering teams; influence technical and financial decisions, • Define and drive SLOs/SLIs, service health metrics and standards, • Troubleshoot, monitor and improve systems using tooling such as Datadog, Splunk etc., • Contribute to IaC, containerisation and cloud-native adoption (AWS, Terraform, Docker/K8s), • Mentor and support engineers as SRE ways of working are introduced across the organisation Experience / What you bring • 3-5 years in an SRE or closely related reliability/DevSecOps discipline, • Strong knowledge of SRE practices: monitoring, observability, incident response, automation, • Hands-on with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation), • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and container platforms (Docker / Kubernetes), • Comfortable working with vendors, suppliers and internal product/engineering teams, • Able to communicate clearly and influence engineering culture, not just build solutions, • Exposure to large, complex or vendor-heavy environments is desirable, • Hands-on role leadership through influence, not a line-manager post Interested in learning more? Please get in touch with Benjamin Applewhaite to discuss the role in confidence.