Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability and performance of business-critical systems. Reporting into our Head of SRE you will focus on AWS cloud infrastructure DevOps tooling and core SRE practices within a distributed production environment.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leadership & Strategy
  • Define and implement SRE best practices across the organization.
  • Proven expertise in production support engineering disaster recovery (DCR) automation and cloud operations
  • Mentor and guide a team of SREs fostering growth.
  • Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align reliability goals with business objectives.

• Reliability & Performance
  • Establish SLIs SLOs and SLAs for critical services and ensure adherence.
  • Drive initiatives to improve system resilience and reduce operational toil.
  • Excellent in designing systems that detect and remediate issues without manual intervention Self Healing systems Runbook automation
  • Exposure to tools like Gremlin Chaos Monkey AWS FIS to simulate outages and improve fault tolerance

• Incident Management
  • Act as the primary point of escalation for critical production issues and lead major incident response root cause analysis and postmortems.
  • Perform detailed post-incident investigations to identify underlying causes. Document findings and share learnings to prevent recurrence.
  • Implement preventive measures and continuous improvement processes.

• Observability
  • Champion monitoring logging and alerting strategies using tools like Prometheus Grafana ELK and AWS CloudWatch.
  • Build real-time dashboards to visualize system health and reliability metrics.
  • Configure intelligent alerting based on anomaly detection and thresholds.
  • Combine metrics logs and traces to enable root cause analysis and reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
  • Knowledge of AIOps or ML-based anomaly detection for proactive reliability management.

• Collaboration
  • Work closely with development teams to integrate reliability into application design and deployment
  • Promote a culture of shared responsibility for uptime and performance across engineering teams.

Qualifications :

• Deep expertise with various AWS services. Advanced knowledge of monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong leadership capabilities with a focus on setting clear direction aligning team efforts with organizational goals and maintaining high levels of motivation and engagement across the team.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas solutions and feedback clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Adept at managing conflict constructively and facilitating consensus.
• Proven track record of building secure mission-critical high-volume transaction web-based software systems preferably in regulated environments (finance and insurance industries).
• Hands on technologist working in software development including leading an SRE team.

Additional Information :

• Hybrid working 2 days a week our Nottingham Office
• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus
• Core benefits include pension bupa healthcare sharesave scheme and more
• 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time