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