Site Reliability Engineer AWS

Salary: £39,000 - 70,500 per year

Requirements

• We ideally want experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Cloud Operations, or NOC environment.
• We expect exposure to Linux systems administration.
• We expect exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure.
• We expect exposure to Kubernetes and Docker.
• We expect experience in production support and incident management.
• We expect scripting ability in Python, Bash, or Go.
• We expect familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
• We expect networking fundamentals including DNS, TCP/IP, and load balancing.
• We value a passion for automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, SRE principles such as SLIs and SLOs, or regulated environments would be beneficial but is not essential.

Responsibilities

• We monitor and maintain highly available production platforms running in AWS.
• We respond to and manage production incidents across a 24/7 service.
• We investigate complex technical issues and restore services quickly and effectively.
• We develop automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve platform resilience.
• We build and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across cloud environments.
• We work alongside Software, Platform, Cloud, and Security Engineers to improve reliability and operational excellence.
• We contribute to post-incident reviews and drive continuous service improvements.
• We support containerised workloads using Kubernetes and Docker.

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• Bash
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• Datadog
• Docker
• Grafana
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Load Balancing
• Prometheus
• Python
• Security
• Splunk
• TCP/IP
• Terraform
• DevOps

More

We are recruiting Site Reliability Engineers to join a global leader in AI-powered customer experience and cloud technology. Following the award of a major government programme, we are expanding our engineering teams to build and support highly secure, cloud-native platforms that deliver sensitive communication services. This is a fully remote role in the UK with a 24/7 shift pattern on a 28-day rota including days and nights. We offer a competitive salary, bonus, and excellent benefits. You will join a collaborative, engineering-led SRE team where reliability, automation, and continuous improvement are central to the platform, and where you will help shape highly resilient cloud services.

last updated 27 week of 2026