About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Substantial experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering, running production services at scale.
- A proven record of improving reliability against defined SLOs.
- Experience supervising, coaching or mentoring engineers.
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Calm, structured problem-solving under pressure during incidents.
- Desirable: GCP certification, such as Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
- Desirable: Kubernetes certification, such as CKA or CKAD.
- Desirable: Experience with data platforms and data management systems.
- Desirable: Experience in a regulated environment, such as financial services.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, observability and operational health of one or more areas of cloud infrastructure, and lead the SREs working in that area.
- Use service level objectives (SLOs) to prioritize operational improvements and build the engineering capability of the team.
- Manage the development and/or operation of significant aspects of the data management system, with guidance from senior colleagues.
- Design, build and maintain infrastructure as code, automation and tooling that reduce manual toil.
- Improve release safety through CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery and rollback practices.
- Plan capacity and performance, and carry out resilience, failover and load testing.
- Participate in the on-call rota and act as an escalation point for the area.
- Work with development, security and product teams to embed reliability in design and delivery.
Technologies
- ARM
- Architect
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Security
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We are advertising a Senior Site Reliability Engineer contract in Manchester for 6–12 months, paying £650–£750 per day inside IR35 via an umbrella company. We are advertising this vacancy on behalf of a client through Advanced Resource Managers (ARM), a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy covering technical industries. We will not send your CV without your permission. The role focuses on the reliability, observability and operational health of cloud infrastructure.
last updated 45 week of 2026