SRE / DevOps Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for an SRE/DevOps Engineer to join a leading software house. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, this role offers the chance to stay hands-on and participate in strategic decisions. We want someone with fresh ideas and supporting experience who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences. Responsibilities: Ownership and implementation across multiple projects from our SRE strategy that focuses on maturity, scalability, resilience, security and automation. Manage and maintain environments to ensure high availability and security. Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions using tools like Terraform. Manage AWS services – monitoring, investigating and fixing any issues if they arise. Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters for efficiency, stability and high availability. Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery, maturing our current approaches. Design and implement robust monitoring systems that proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and system failures. Automate manual tasks to improve operational efficiency and reduce technical debt. Collaborate with other SRE engineers to ensure resilience and scalability across the platform. Work with our teams to directly influence and drive the adoption of SRE best practices and ways of working within our microservice architecture. Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications supporting out-of-hours changes where necessary. Experience & Skills Required: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline. 7+ years experience working in DevOps, SRE or infrastructure management roles. Familiar with AWS and its services, particularly IAM, S3, EKS, Networking. Experience with implementing/enhancing IaC specifically Terraform. Experience using CloudFormation/CDK. Working knowledge of containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes). Exposure to working with serverless computing. Experience in delivering monitoring and alerting solutions for diverse systems. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools. Experience working with database technology, e.g. MySQL & Postgres. Place of work: Remote with two days a month in the office. #J-18808-Ljbffr