VodafoneThree - SRE III

In this role you will lead the design and improvement of cloud platforms on AWS, enabling scalable and reliable services for engineering teams. You will collaborate across engineers, security, and product teams to deliver automated, observable, and cost-efficient platforms. You’ll drive reliability improvements, build CI/CD tooling, and mentor others in modern SRE practices. This role sits at the heart of VodafoneThree’s cloud and platform strategy, shaping the way teams deploy and operate at scale. You’ll work in a flexible hybrid setup, contributing to high-impact projects across the nation with real, tangible outcomes.

• bonus scheme
• pension plan
• learning tools
• parental leave policies
• charity leave/time
• discretionary benefits and discounts

• Lead the design and improvement of cloud platforms on AWS to be scalable, secure, reliable, cost-efficient, and easy to consume
• Drive a culture of build once, automate forever by replacing repetitive work with sustainable engineering solutions
• Enable engineering teams to use advanced metrics and tracing (Datadog) to reduce SLA
• Partner with engineers, architects, security, and product teams to build and operate platforms enabling rapid and safe delivery
• Design, build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and tooling (Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions) to improve developer experience and operational excellence
• Improve logging, monitoring, alerting and operational visibility to support data-driven decisions
• Participate in and improve the on-call experience to reduce operational burden and improve resilience
• Coach and mentor engineers across the organisation, promoting modern SRE practices and knowledge sharing

• Experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong cloud and software engineering skills
• Proficient in AWS and Kubernetes/EKS; able to design and support containerised workloads
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and developer platform tooling (Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions)
• Proficient in Python and Go; applies software engineering to automate operational problems
• Incident management: leading investigations, identifying root causes and driving long-term improvements
• Understanding of AI-powered tooling for productivity and governance in engineering contexts
• Strong communication skills across engineers, architects and stakeholders
• Ability to influence through leadership and mentoring

• Collaboration
• Mentoring/coaching
• Communication
• AWS
• Kubernetes / Amazon EKS
• Infrastructure as Code