Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Hybrid
Bristol, United Kingdom
£ 106,000 / year
Full Time
18-03-2025
Job Specifications
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Head Resourcing is pleased to be working with one of the UK's leading retail banks who are looking for an experienced Cloud SRE to join our engineering team and help drive reliability, scalability, and automation across our cloud-based products and services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role is all about embedding SRE best practices, improving platform resilience, and troubleshooting service issues with an engineering-first approach, using code and automation rather than manual work.
Key Skills & Experience:
Background in software engineering or telemetry, ideally with SRE experience.
Hands-on expertise with GCP (or AWS/Azure), including security and networking.
Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters in a production environment.
Proficiency in Python, Java, Golang, BASH, or PowerShell for scripting and automation.
Understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, with experience in monitoring, alerting, and logging.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.).
Experience with observability tools like Dynatrace, Stackdriver, Cloud Operations Suite, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Logging.
Ability to mentor engineers, troubleshoot complex system issues, and improve automation to reduce manual effort.
Salary:
Up to £106k depending on experience
Discretionary bonus
Pension
Hybrid:
2 days per week onsite working in Bristol
Why Join Us?
We’re on a mission to transform our technology landscape, investing in automation, innovation, and engineering talent. If you want to help shape the future of cloud reliability, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Company
Hello, We are a people centric business and we believe every individual matters whether it is a candidate, client or colleague. We specialise in sourcing contract and permanent staff across the IT, digital and business change sectors. With a presence in Edinburgh, Glasgow and the North of England, however we work with businesses and candidates across the entire United Kingdom. Founded in 2001, we've grown organically through client recommendation, and hold an enviable reputation as a recruitment agency who really do think... Know more
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