About this role
Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 per year
Requirements
- Experienced Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Senior DevOps Engineer comfortable influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure DevOps and cloud-native services
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, Terraform, or similar
- Experience designing and optimising CI/CD pipelines
- Experience implementing observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Kibana, or similar
- Experience with modern automation frameworks, including Playwright or an equivalent JavaScript testing framework
- Experience coaching engineering teams and embedding platform engineering best practices
- Experience supporting large-scale, customer-facing digital platforms
- Experience with .NET, React, and TypeScript is beneficial
Responsibilities
- Own our platform engineering practice
- Define engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across platform engineering, DevOps, and quality engineering
- Lead implementation of an observability strategy, introducing telemetry, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting to provide meaningful insight into application and platform health
- Improve our Azure platform capabilities and help bring greater Infrastructure as Code ownership in-house
- Review and evolve our existing Playwright automation estate, enabling developers to take greater ownership of automated testing through modern practices
- Optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve build performance, deployment speed, and release confidence
- Work alongside the Tech Lead to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across web and mobile platforms
- Help shape the capabilities needed to support AI-assisted, spec-driven software delivery
- Work with the CTO and Tech Leads to influence technical direction, architecture, and engineering culture
- Define standards, select tooling, build reusable frameworks, and coach development teams
Technologies
- AI
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CTO
- Datadog
- DevOps
- Support
- JavaScript
- Kibana
- Mobile
- Playwright
- React
- Terraform
- TypeScript
- Web
- ASP.NET
More
We are investing in our engineering capability as we modernise our technology estate and embrace AI-assisted software delivery. Reporting to the CTO, this Site Reliability Engineer will help shape the evolution of platform engineering, reliability, and quality. Our Azure platform, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD foundations are established, and we are looking to take them further. This role offers meaningful influence and ownership without making the engineer a bottleneck or responsible for every deployment. The position is based in Central Manchester, with a hybrid working model of three days per week in our new offices. Salary is up to £80,000, plus benefits including a bonus and private healthcare.
last updated 43 week of 2026