Site Reliability Engineer

🚀 Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) – AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform

💰 Up to £600/day (Inside IR35)

📍 Hybrid – London

📅 6-Month Contract (Likely Extension)

🔍 The Opportunity

We’re looking for 2x Senior Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join a household-name product company.

You’ll work alongside an experienced Infrastructure Lead and multiple engineering teams to scale platform capabilities 📈, strengthen reliability 🛠️, and drive automation across build & deployment ⚙️

🧠 What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and enhance CI/CD pipelines & release workflows (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab / CircleCI) 🔄
• Operate and optimise Kubernetes environments (EKS primarily, GKE exposure a bonus) ☸️
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform 🏗️
• Champion reliability engineering: observability 👀, incident response 🚨, performance & cost optimisation 💡, and security best practices 🔐
• Drive automation across environments and collaborate with cross-functional teams 🤝

✅ What You’ll Bring

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, networking, EKS/ECR, CloudWatch, etc.) ☁️
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes & containerisation (Docker) 🐳
• Solid experience with Terraform & IaC best practices 📦
• Proven track record delivering CI/CD pipelines end-to-end 🚀
• A senior, self-sufficient communicator who can mentor and work across multiple teams 💬

⭐ Nice to Have

• Experience with service mesh & observability tools (Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) 📊
• Policy as code exposure 📜
• Scripting skills (Bash / Python / Go) 💻
• Experience with GKE or multi-cloud environments 🌍

👉 Interested? If you’ve got the skills and want to work on a high-impact platform, apply now!