Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

• Hybrid working with three days a week onsite in Greater Manchester
• Modern SRE environment with cloud-native tooling (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• High-availability digital platforms and performance-critical workloads

ABOUT THE CLIENT

We’re supporting a well-established UK organisation recognised for operating large-scale, high-availability digital services. With continued investment into platform reliability and engineering maturity, they’re looking to appoint an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen a growing SRE function.

THE BENEFITS

• Exposure to modern cloud-native tooling and reliability practices
• Strong engineering culture with collaboration across product, operations and platform teams

THE SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER ROLE:

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll ensure the reliability, performance and scalability of critical digital platforms. You’ll monitor production systems, refine SLAs/SLOs and error budgets, design scalable solutions, improve architecture through telemetry insights, and build dashboards that provide clear visibility of system health. You’ll also contribute to performance testing strategies and collaborate with engineering, operations and compliance teams to maintain high standards across the platform. This role would suit someone who has worked within Software Development or Engineering and has progressed into Cloud Engineering or SRE with a focus on Monitoring and Observability.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, scalable architectures and performance optimisation
• Experience with observability, debugging and incident response
• Proficiency in a programming language for automation and tooling (GO or .NET preferred)
• Cloud experience, ideally AWS, and knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus or OpenTelemetry
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, operations and product teams

TO BE CONSIDERED

Please either apply through this advert or email me directly via dave.henderson@searchability.com.

For further information please call me on 01244 567 930 / 07833 460 873.

By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.

KEY SKILLS

SRE, Site Reliability Engineer, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Observability, Performance, SLAs/SLOs, Monitoring, Automation, GO, .NET, Distributed Systems, Cloud-Native Engineering