At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain and improve AWS infrastructure while collaborating with developers on monitoring and security.
- Company: Camascope, a fast-growing tech company transforming healthcare with innovative solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, pension scheme, healthcare benefits, and 25 days annual leave.
- Other info: Join a passionate team and grow with us as we scale.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in healthcare technology while working with modern cloud-native infrastructure.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in SRE or DevOps, strong AWS and Python skills, and excellent communication.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
hackajob is collaborating with Camascope to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)
Reporting to: Director of Engineering
Location: London (Hybrid – we're flexible)
Job Type: Permanent
About Us
Camascope is a fast-growing technology company focused on empowering the care and medication sector with technology. We are a team of talented, caring, and ambitious individuals who are committed to making a difference in care. Our ecosystem connects pharmacies, care homes, and doctors to improve the lives of many.
There has never been a better time to join Camascope. Our team is growing and our product is reaching more users and partners every day. You will join a collaborative and passionate team. We love solving real problems and are committed to building the highest-quality solutions. If you are eager to make a meaningful impact in healthcare and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, Camascope will be the perfect place for you.
What You'll Do
- Own reliability – Maintain and improve our AWS infrastructure using Terraform, bringing your expertise and best practices
- Champion observability – Partner with developers to implement effective monitoring, logging, and tracing strategies
- Strengthen security – Work closely with the CISO to implement security best practices and ensure compliance
- Optimise costs – Monitor cloud spend and implement FinOps best practices
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines – Implement and maintain reliability and observability aspects of GitHub workflows and deployment pipelines
- Incident response – Lead incidents, run blameless post-mortems, and drive continuous improvement
- Enable developers – Mentor teams on SRE and observability practices, helping them quickly understand and resolve issues
- Leverage AI tooling – Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to accelerate infrastructure work, and explore AI-driven approaches to incident detection, root cause analysis, and remediation
What We're Looking For
Essential
- 3+ years in an SRE, Platform, or DevOps engineering role
- AWS services: CloudWatch, X-Ray, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, Security Groups
- Python for scripting, tooling, and Lambda development
- Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- GitHub (Actions, workflows, repository management)
- Strong understanding of observability – metrics, logs, and traces
- Good understanding of cloud security principles and best practices
- Experience with cloud cost management and optimisation
- Excellent communication skills for working with technical and non-technical colleagues
- Self-starter who can prioritise and organise their own workload
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot
Bonus Points For
- Datadog for monitoring, APM, and log management
- Azure experience: Front Door, Storage Accounts, App Service, Azure SQL Database, Application Insights
- Previous experience in early-stage startups or scale-ups
- Having worked in Healthcare or Pharmacy tech previously
- Experience working in regulated environments or with compliance frameworks
- Experience with AI-driven DevOps tooling (e.g. AWS DevOps Agent or similar AI agents for incident resolution, root cause analysis, and operational improvement)
- Experience with SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
On-Call
We have a 24/7 customer support team who handle day-to-day issues. We don't have a formal on-call engineering rota, but our platform supports care homes around the clock – so we're looking for someone who is happy to occasionally jump on a call with the team if critical platform issues arise out of hours (and part of your job will be making sure this isn't necessary!).
Why Join Us?
- Join an established engineering team and have the opportunity to enhance and shape how we approach platform and reliability engineering
- Make a meaningful impact in healthcare technology
- Work with modern cloud-native infrastructure
- Influence engineering culture and platform practices
- Collaborate in an environment where your ideas matter
- Grow with us as we scale
Benefits
- Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
- Pension scheme and healthcare benefits
- Ongoing training and professional development
- 25 days annual leave excluding bank holidays
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. If you're excited about this role but don't meet 100% of the requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway.
