IT & Software

Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Raytheon

Winnersh · United Kingdom · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Principal SRE role, you will own AWS-hosted infrastructures delivering B2B aviation services, ensuring reliability, performance, and secure scalability. You’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team to deploy feature-rich, resilient systems and lead cloud migration efforts from on-premises to AWS. You’ll balance speed with reliability while hitting defined service levels, and support critical incidents as part of an on-call rotation. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge aviation tech and a path to shape global cloud architectures.

Pay / Benefits
  • 25 days annual leave plus 9 public holidays (option to buy/sell up to 5 days)
  • Competitive salary package and bonus scheme
  • Excellent 2:1 matched pension contribution (up to 10%)
  • BUPA health insurance with discounted rates for immediate family
  • Life assurance
  • Group Income Protection
Responsibilities
  • Own one or more AWS-hosted infrastructures delivering products to commercial customers
  • Manage, enhance, and troubleshoot AWS environments with CI/CD best practices
  • Deliver features with an agile release pattern and continuous testing
  • Guide the team in using AWS tools to scale features for customers
  • Drive the migration of a multi-tenant web application from on-premises to AWS
  • Participate in on-call rotation to support critical service incidents
Key requirements
  • Extensive experience delivering and operating large-scale cloud systems (AWS preferred)
  • Software engineering background with coding skills in OO language (C#/.NET or Python)
  • Infrastructure as code with AWS CDK
  • Experience managing AWS ECS clusters and PostgreSQL databases
  • Experience with Bash and/or PowerShell scripting
  • Experience with system design consulting, platform management, and AWS CloudFormation
  • Experience with Docker and Git
  • Collaborative mindset
  • Strong documentation and communication
  • Problem-solving under pressure
  • AWS (EC2/ECS/CloudFormation)
  • AWS CDK
  • PostgreSQL

Reference: WJ-747_30144858

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