Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Spectrum IT Recruitment
In this role you own the production environment, ensuring system availability and end-to-end health. You will build tools to streamline platform operations and improve dependability, performance, and delivery speed. You’ll analyze performance to anticipate demand and drive innovation, while providing technical oversight for large-scale distributed applications. You’ll work closely with developers and cross-functional teams to strengthen service quality and resilience. This is a hands-on, impact role at scale with a clear focus on reliability and modern cloud-native practices.
Pay / Benefits- Life Insurance - 4 x Annual Salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Hybrid Working - 3 Days from Home
- GP Online Assistance Portal
- + Much More
- Monitor and interpret system and application metrics to tune performance and troubleshoot issues
- Collaborate with developers to improve service quality through testing and structured release practices
- Engage in architectural discussions, manage platform operations, and contribute to capacity forecasting
- Design and implement automated, scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions
- Maintain focus on delivering new features while meeting service level goals
- Provide operational support and technical oversight for large-scale distributed applications
- 3–6 years in a similar role with emphasis on systems engineering, automation, and reliability
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Java, or C#) and scripting (Bash or PowerShell)
- Strong AWS experience and understanding of core services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB)
- Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code tools (CloudFormation or Terraform)
- Solid knowledge of CI/CD and related tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI)
- Experience with containers and microservices (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with observability/monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, AWS CloudWatch)
- Incident management experience with blameless postmortems and cross-functional leadership
- Analytical thinking
- Troubleshooting under pressure
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Kubernetes (advanced experience; certifications a bonus)
- Grafana Observability Suite (Loki, Mimir, Tempo)
- Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, Rundeck
Reference: WJ-747_31171759