Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Helping teams ship faster, safer, and with less friction.

This one’s for the engineer who’s seen platforms creak under pressure — and knows what good looks like when it comes to resilience, automation, and developer enablement.

You’ll play a key role in shaping how a modern engineering org builds, deploys, and runs its systems. Less firefighting, more forward planning. Less repetition, more enablement.

What you'll be doing

  • Designing and supporting scalable, secure cloud-native infrastructure (Azure, Terraform, AKS).
  • Embedding SLOs, observability, and incident response as real practice — not just theory.
  • Evolving CI/CD pipelines with GitOps, shift-left security, and smart delivery strategies.
  • Building internal tooling, reusable modules, and platforms that empower developers.
  • Driving smarter cloud usage through cost monitoring and optimisation.
  • Owning the platform lifecycle — from proactive maintenance to incident retrospectives.

What you bring

  • Real-world experience with cloud platforms — particularly Azure and Kubernetes-based workloads.
  • Strong IaC mindset (Terraform) and scripting comfort (Bash, PowerShell).
  • Knowledge of platform security, network fundamentals, and identity/access best practices.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling and performance monitoring.
  • Hands-on with GitOps tooling, autoscaling strategies, and DevSecOps workflows.
  • A product mindset — you know internal platforms deserve just as much care as external ones.

Why this role?

It’s a chance to get stuck into meaningful platform work, not just keep the lights on. You’ll help shape how a growing engineering org thinks about reliability, speed, and safety — and leave your mark on the systems and tooling that power real product

You’ll also get:

  • £70–80k base + strong benefits package
  • Remote, with occasional travel to Manchester
  • Personal dev budget and health cover from day one

Interested?

  • We’re not expecting you to tick every single box. If you’ve done real SRE or platform work and want to shape the future of engineering at scale — we should talk.
Company
Socium Recruitment
Location
Manchester, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted
Company
Socium Recruitment
Location
Manchester, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted