Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS CDK)

Remote UK
£65,000 - £75,000 | Sponsorship available in some circumstances

VIQU have partnered with a leading UK technology organisation undergoing significant investment in its cloud platform and engineering capability. As they continue to scale, they are looking to appoint a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help shape the future of their AWS infrastructure, improve platform resilience and mentor a growing engineering team.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, with approximately 80% focused on engineering and 20% on mentoring and supporting other engineers. You'll play a key role in driving best practice across cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability and operational excellence while helping to develop the wider SRE function.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK.
• Drive improvements across platform reliability, automation and infrastructure as code.
• Lead the implementation of CI/CD best practices to improve software delivery.
• Enhance monitoring, observability and incident management across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve performance, resilience and operational efficiency.
• Mentor and coach engineers, promoting SRE and DevOps best practices.
• Contribute to technical direction, architecture discussions and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Requirements

• Proven experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or DevOps Engineer position.
• Strong commercial AWS experience.
• AWS CDK experience is essential.
• Strong programming experience in TypeScript or Python.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes, Amazon EKS or ECS.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch or similar.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, resilience and infrastructure automation.
• Previous experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior SRE looking to remain hands-on while taking ownership of technical direction and helping to shape a modern cloud platform within a growing engineering function.

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