Cloud Engineer

Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS SRE – Observability)

Glasgow (Onsite – 5 Days a Week)

Contract – 12 Months (Inside IR35)

£456–£458 per day (Umbrella)

The Opportunity

We’re hiring an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS SRE – Observability) to join a high-performing Software Engineering team delivering for a leading global financial services client.

You’ll play a key role in improving platform reliability, monitoring, and observability across AWS-based systems, working on critical, large-scale environments.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build, and maintain Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring and insights
• Develop and enhance observability solutions across AWS infrastructure
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to measure service performance
• Implement monitoring strategies based on golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation)
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to improve system resilience
• Contribute to error budget management and reliability-focused decisions
• Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines and cloud operations

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years’ experience in SRE / Cloud Engineering / Platform Engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS
• Proven expertise in Grafana and observability tooling
• Solid understanding of:
• Monitoring, logging, and alerting
• SRE principles (SLA, SLO, SLI, error budgets)
• Experience troubleshooting production systems
• Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with Snowflake or Databricks
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
• Exposure to modern cloud-native and DevOps practices

Additional Details

• Location: Glasgow (full-time onsite)
• Contract: 12 months (Inside IR35)
• Rate: £456–£458/day via umbrella
• Start: ASAP