2 of 2 Chaos Engineering Jobs in the East of England

Head of Performance & Reliability Engineering Full-Time - Hybrid (3 days in Cambridgeshire) Up to £95,000 + Bonus This is an exceptional opportunity to join a major organisation at a pivotal stage in their digital transformation. As Head of Performance & Reliability Engineering You'll shape strategy, lead performance testing and chaos engineering initiatives, and embed reliability … best practices across engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams. This is a senior, strategic leadership role focused on system excellence, observability, and continuous improvement. Ideal Candidate: Proven experience leading Performance Engineering, Reliability, or SRE functions Deep expertise in performance testing methodologies (load, stress, spike, soak) Strong hands-on background with LoadRunner and Dynatrace (plus tools such as NeoLoad, k6 … or JMeter) Skilled in chaos engineering , resilience testing , and system scalability Experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets Strong knowledge of distributed systems , cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and microservice architectures Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and embed performance and reliability into the SDLC Inspirational leader with experience building, mentoring, and enabling high-performing More ❯

REST Assured, Google Cloud, CI/CD Here at Burns Sheehan, we're working with a leading automotive and financial services organisation modernising their test automation strategy across UK engineering teams. They're moving away from legacy frameworks and building a scalable, modular automation platform. They're looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer (SDET) to design modern test … from scratch Modularise existing Java/REST Assured API frameworks into reusable, repository-hosted components Lead framework migration - help teams transition from Cypress/Selenium into Playwright Work across engineering teams as an internal consultant, uplifting automation maturity Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines Mentor developers on writing effective API and UI tests Future scope: distributed performance testing … chaos engineering What They're Looking For: 7+ years software testing, with 5+ years test automation using modern frameworks Strong Playwright + TypeScript/JavaScript experience Proven framework development from scratch - modular, scalable, repository-hosted Object-oriented programming fundamentals - design patterns (e.g., factory patterns) Consultancy mindset Experience in regulated environments (Nice to Have) Google Cloud Platform and Performance More ❯