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Placement, Site Reliability Engineering SRE


Job Location:

Belfast - UK

Hourly Salary: GBP 14 - 14
Posted: 6 September 2026 (2 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 4 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About us @Symphony

Reliable. Interlinked. Sophisticated.

Symphony stands as an AI-driven leader in communication and technology powered by a synergy of interlinked platforms: messaging voice directory and data analytics.

Our advanced encryption technologies empower more than 1400 global institutions to leverage AI effectively uphold rigorous data security standards manage intricate regulatory requirements and refine their professional interactions.

Role Description

Symphony is seeking an enthusiastic Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Placement Student to join our Infrastructure team. At Symphony real-time collaboration and secure communication demand ultra-high availability ultra-low latency and robust this role you will work alongside senior engineers to apply software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations problems. You will gain hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures container orchestration automated deployment pipelines and reliability monitoring helping ensure our enterprise platform stays scalable performant and resilient.

Key Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure Automation: Assist in writing and maintaining automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to streamline deployment scaling and infrastructure management.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Help build refine and maintain dashboards and alerts (using tools like Prometheus Grafana or Datadog) to track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
  • Incident Response & Support: Shadow SRE mentors during incident triage assist with root cause analysis (RCA) and contribute to blameless post-mortem documentation.
  • Performance & Reliability Tuning: Participate in analyzing system performance bottlenecks stress testing services and identifying single points of failure within cloud infrastructure.
  • CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance: Support the maintenance and improvement of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to facilitate safe reliable software releases.

Qualifications

  • Education: Currently pursuing a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Software Engineering or a related technical discipline.
  • Software Development Skills: Solid foundational programming skills in at least one modern language (e.g. Python Go Java or Bash scripting).
  • Systems & Networking Fundamentals: Good understanding of Linux operating systems basics command-line interfaces network protocols (TCP/IP HTTP/HTTPS DNS) and RESTful APIs.
  • Problem-Solving Ability: Strong analytical mindset with a curiosity for understanding how complex distributed systems work and how they fail.
  • Collaboration & Communication: Clear written and verbal communication skills with an eager team-oriented attitude toward learning and sharing knowledge.

Compensation: 14/hour

Duration : 9 months


Benefits:

  • Hands-on experience in real-world SRE projects.
  • Mentorship and guidance from experienced developers.
  • Opportunity to expand your technical skill set and learn new technologies.
  • Networking opportunities within the industry.
  • Develop an understanding of Symphonys products/services and its relevance in the marketplace.

Join us for an exciting Placement that will kickstart your software development career. Apply now and become a part of our innovative team!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.


Required Experience:

IC


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