At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure while mentoring a growing engineering team.
- Company: Leading UK tech organisation investing in cloud platform and engineering capabilities.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, remote work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with a focus on innovation and career development.
- Why this job: Join a hands-on role shaping the future of cloud infrastructure and driving best practices.
- Qualifications: Experience in SRE, AWS CDK, and strong programming skills in TypeScript or Python.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 75000 £ per year.
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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops Engineer position.
Strong commercial AWS experience.
AWS CDK experience is essential.
Strong programming experience in Type Script 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, Open Search 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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