VodafoneThree - SRE III

In this role within VodafoneThree's PaCE team, you’ll enable engineering squads to deliver scalable, resilient digital services. You will champion shift-left performance, reliability, and operational readiness, building frameworks and self-service tooling for early validation. You’ll integrate performance validation into CI/CD and define meaningful SLOs to guide capacity planning and resilience. You’ll collaborate across product, platform, and SRE teams to reduce risk and improve customer experience, shaping an in-house framework used by hundreds of engineers. This is a chance to impact the nation’s digital connectivity and drive exponential reliability.

• competitive pay
• bonus schemes
• up to 28 days of leave plus bank holidays
• paid time for charity work
• pension plan
• learning resources and parental leave policies

• Embed non-functional testing, reliability, and scalability validation across the software development lifecycle
• Integrate automated performance and resilience checks into CI/CD pipelines
• Enable engineering teams with self-service tooling, frameworks, standards, and guidance for performance, resilience, and chaos testing
• Champion engineering best practices including SLOs, observability, capacity planning, and operational readiness
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Platform, Architecture, and SRE to design resilient, scalable solutions and identify risks
• Drive continuous improvement through data-driven insights and chaos engineering to validate system behavior under load and failure
• Contribute to the development of an in-house performance framework used across the organization

• Software development experience with distributed, high-performing systems in Python, React, Node.js, Java or Scala
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation)
• Familiarity with observability tools and setting service level objectives (SLOs)
• Proactive problem-solving mindset to identify improvements and bottlenecks
• Working knowledge of CI/CD implementation and agile DevOps methods
• Understanding of non-functional testing practices

• Proactive problem-solving
• Collaborative working style
• Data-driven decision making
• Python, React, Node.js, Java or Scala programming
• AWS or Azure cloud platforms
• Terraform and/or CloudFormation