Junior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking a Junior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with foundational knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure containerised platforms and CI/CD pipelines. The successful candidate will support the team in improving system reliability availability performance and scalability while learning to deliver high-quality services efficiently.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to develop engineering and operational skills with exposure to automation observability scalability and resilience across cloud-native environments. As a junior engineer you will work alongside senior engineers to learn and apply DevOps and SRE best practices contributing to efforts that reduce operational toil and enhance system reliability.

Note: This is a reliability-focused engineering role with supported on-call responsibilities and involvement in platform modernisation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in building maintaining and monitoring infrastructure on AWS under guidance from senior engineers.
• Support the maintenance and improvement of CI/CD pipelines for automated build test and deployment processes.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows including multi-stage pipelines and release processes.
• Assist with the administration and support of Windows () and Linux-based production systems.
• Support the deployment and maintenance of containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS).
• Assist in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform CloudFormation or ARM templates.
• Write and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell Bash or Python.
• Support the monitoring of SLIs SLOs and SLAs to help ensure system reliability.
• Assist in configuring and maintaining monitoring logging and alerting solutions (CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Azure Monitor).
• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting under the guidance of senior engineers contributing to root cause analysis (RCA).
• Support performance monitoring and capacity planning activities.
• Work with development teams to understand and support deployment strategies (blue-green canary releases).
• Follow security compliance and best practices across CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure.

Qualifications :

Required Skills & Experience

• Up to 2 year of experience or relevant internship/placement in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering (graduate applicants with strong academic projects welcome).
• Basic understanding of AWS services (EC2 S3 RDS VPC IAM ELB CloudWatch).
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and exposure to Azure DevOps Pipelines or similar tools.
• Basic understanding of pipeline design and deployment strategies.
• Foundational knowledge of Windows Server administration including IIS applications.
• Basic Linux system administration skills.
• Awareness of containerisation concepts (Docker) and an interest in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS).
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform CloudFormation or ARM templates).
• Basic scripting ability in at least one of PowerShell Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging concepts and tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK CloudWatch).
• Foundational understanding of networking security and cloud architecture principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
• Any hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) through personal projects labs or coursework.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git).
• Exposure to Helm GitOps practices or service mesh concepts.
• Interest in obtaining relevant certifications (AWS Kubernetes Azure DevOps).

Key Competencies / Characteristics

• Eager learner: Proactively seeks to build knowledge in SRE practices cloud-native technologies and automation.
• Reliability-minded: Developing an appreciation for uptime performance and system resilience.
• Automation-curious: Interested in reducing manual effort and finding efficient solutions through scripting and tooling.
• Accountable: Takes responsibility for assigned tasks and follows through to completion.
• Strong communicator: Willing to ask questions share progress and document findings clearly.
• Collaborative: Works well within a team supporting colleagues across platform security and application teams.

Additional Information :

D&I statement

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time