Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Charles Simon Associates Ltd

4 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Compensation

£ 125K

Job location

Remote

Tech stack

Azure

Bash

DevOps

Distributed Systems

Identity and Access Management

Python

Load Testing

Log Analysis

Powershell

Reliability Engineering

Prometheus

Systems Integration

Web Applications

Datadog

Pulumi

Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)

Grafana

Cloudformation

Kubernetes

Azure

Puppet

Terraform

Vulnerability Analysis

Microservices

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer - (SRE, Site Reliability Engineer, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) - Permanent - Remote, * Designing and enforcing service-level objectives (SLOs), SLIs, and SLAs to ensure reliability targets are measurable and aligned with business expectations

Implementing incident response frameworks, including runbooks, postmortems, and blameless RCA processes to drive continuous improvement
Integrating observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry) to enable proactive detection and resolution of system anomalies
Managing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation to ensure repeatable, auditable deployments
Optimizing cost and resource utilization across cloud environments through rightsizing, autoscaling, and lifecycle policies
Driving chaos engineering initiatives to test system resilience under failure conditions and validate recovery strategies
Championing security best practices within infrastructure-e.g. secrets management, IAM policies, and vulnerability scanning
Collaborating with DevOps and platform teams to build paved-road deployment patterns and internal developer portals
Leading capacity planning and load testing efforts to anticipate scaling needs and prevent bottlenecks
Contributing to architectural decisions that impact reliability, latency, and fault domains across distributed systems

Requirements

Extensive SRE experience within previous roles
Strong Terraform skills
Proven Kubernetes and AKS experience
Experience in creating and modifying terraform deployment on live environments
Experience with Monitoring solutions ideally Datadog, however Azure Application Insight, Log Analytics or Grafana
Scripting skills for automation within; PowerShell, Python or Bash
Experience with web based applications

Desirable Skills: