Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Containerisations, Pipeline, GCP, Cloud

We're seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join the Cloud Enabling team to play a crucial role in maturing our SRE capability and contributing to the resiliency, availability, and security of our infrastructure and software.

Day to day:

  • Support systems that serve customers and billions of requests monthly, ensuring availability, scalability, and resiliency.
  • Act as a key technical contributor in liaising with SRE guilds to drive improvements in cloud deployments, monitoring solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and cost optimisation.
  • Drive innovation by exploring new technologies and methodologies to enhance SRE capabilities, including AI tooling and automation opportunities.
  • Manage high-throughput systems in production to deliver customer value beyond proof-of-concepts.
  • Implement SLAs/SLOs/SLIs for software and data teams.
  • Develop tooling for efficient incident triage, granular alerting, well-defined runbooks, and auto-resolving mechanisms.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in engineering conversations related to site reliability, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
  • Proven hands-on experience in software development, testing, monitoring, and operational stability at scale.
  • Production experience with Kubernetes and monitoring tools such as Datadog or Dynatrace.
  • Strong knowledge of automation, CI/CD, and best practices.
  • Experience running postmortems, defining SLAs/SLIs/SLOs, and participating in support rotas.
  • Coding/scripting experience (Python/Bash) in a commercial setting.
  • Database knowledge, streaming and batch operations, and API design.
  • Good background with Kubernetes (ideally microservice architectures using Istio service mesh).
  • Extensive experience with cloud-native solutions (ideally Google Cloud).
  • Solid understanding of cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Containerisations, Pipeline, GCP, Cloud

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Job Details

Company
McGregor Boyall
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£90,000 - £95,000 per annum
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