Site Reliability Engineer

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER

• £40k salary
• Join a growing, technology-driven business operating at scale within the online gaming and sports sector.
• Opportunity to shape the SRE strategy.

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our client is a fast-growing digital technology company at the forefront of delivering high-availability platforms for the sports and gaming industry. They pride themselves on innovation, scalability, and the ability to perform under pressure during high-profile live events. As part of their continued investment in reliability and platform performance, they are now seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen their engineering function and help evolve their observability and automation capabilities.

THE BENEFITS

• Hybrid working model (office and remote)
• Opportunity to define and lead SRE strategy within a collaborative culture
• Exposure to modern cloud-native and containerised environments

THE SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER ROLE:

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll ensure the reliability, scalability and performance of complex online platforms supporting high-volume transactions. Working closely with operations and product teams, you'll monitor production systems, develop automation to improve uptime, and refine observability to provide real-time insight into platform health. You'll also play a key role in performance testing, system tuning and incident management to ensure smooth operation during critical events.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• At least 2 years' experience working as an SRE
• Deep understanding of system reliability, scalability and performance tuning
• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Go or .NET for automation and debugging
• Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud platform
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong networking fundamentals and distributed systems knowledge
• Proven incident response and root cause analysis experience
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

TO BE CONSIDERED:

Please either apply through this advert or emailing me directly via (url removed). For further information please call me: (phone number removed). By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.

KEY SKILLS

SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Go, .NET, Cloud Infrastructure, Observability, CI/CD, DevOps, Automation, Performance Tuning, Incident Management