Site Reliability Engineer
Nigel Wright Group
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
3 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 70KJob location
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Java
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Databases
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Datadog
Data Logging
Google Cloud Platform
Backend
Serverless Computing
Programming Languages
Microservices
Job description
I am looking for a Skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-performing engineering function. This role blends elements of software engineering, DevOps, and modern SRE practices, offering the opportunity to work across cloud platforms, observability tools, and backend systems.
You will sit within a collaborative engineering team and contribute to building reliable, scalable, API-driven services that support business-critical platforms.
What you'll Be Doing:
- Developing and maintaining backend services using modern programming languages (e.g., Java, TypeScript or similar).
- Designing and operating cloud-based workloads on a major public cloud provider (e.g., serverless, containers, storage, and managed databases).
- Implementing SRE principles including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident reduction, and resilience engineering.
- Enhancing system observability using monitoring and logging platforms (e.g., DataDog or equivalent).
- Supporting the creation and improvement of CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
- Ensuring customer-facing services remain highly available and performant.
- Collaborating closely with software engineers, DevOps specialists, product teams, and QA.
- Troubleshooting production issues, participating in incident reviews and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Strong grounding in software engineering with experience working across full lifecycle development.
- Solid experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), ideally including infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Working knowledge of observability/monitoring platforms and best practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD processes, build pipelines, and automation.
- Ability to work in API-first environments, building and maintaining scalable service architectures.
- Comfort working in agile engineering teams and contributing to multi-disciplinary projects.
- A proactive mindset with the ability to problem-solve, analyse systems end-to-end, and identify improvement opportunities.
Benefits & conditions
- Opportunity to join a team operating modern engineering and SRE practices.
- Strong focus on ownership, autonomy, experimentation, and continuous learning.
- Hybrid working and a collaborative engineering culture.
- Exposure to modern technologies across backend, cloud, observability and DevOps tooling.