Junior Site Reliability Engineer
Junior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: London (Hybrid – 2-8 days per month in the office)
Salary: £45,000-50,000 per annum
A growing technology-driven organisation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join its platform and infrastructure team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with 2-3 years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience who enjoys solving technical problems, improving developer experience, and building scalable automation solutions.
The successful candidate will play a key role in platform automation and CI/CD improvement, working closely with engineering teams to support production systems, streamline deployments, and enhance observability across the estate. This role offers genuine ownership, strong technical exposure, and a clear progression path into a mid-level SRE position within 18 months.
Required Skills & Experience
- 2-3 years’ experience within DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Strong Terraform experience, including designing reusable modules
- Ability to write clean, maintainable production-quality code in Python or Bash
- Solid networking knowledge including DNS, load balancing, and CDN concepts
- Experience with monitoring/observability platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
- Comfortable working in incident management and on-call environments
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot
Desirable Experience
- Go programming experience
- Ansible or other configuration management tooling
- Experience working with multiple CDN providers including CloudFront, Fastly, or Cloudflare
What’s on Offer
- Hybrid working model
- Strong career progression opportunities
- Learning and development budget
- Opportunity to work closely with senior technical leadership
- High level of ownership across automation and platform engineering initiatives
This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys combining hands-on technical problem solving with platform improvement and automation work in a collaborative engineering environment.