Senior SRE / Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Burns Sheehan
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 105K

Job location

Remote

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software as a Service
Cloud Computing
Identity and Access Management
Python
Reliability Engineering
Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Fully Remote - UK

£90,000 - £105,000

Remote / Hybrid

️ AWS, GCP, Python, Monitoring & Incident Tooling

Here at Burns Sheehan, we're exclusively partnered with a well-established, high-growth SaaS business operating a data-heavy platform used by hundreds of global brands. They're investing in their platform foundations and are looking for a Senior SRE to take ownership of reliability, infrastructure, and operational maturity across the business.

The role focuses on enabling engineering teams, improving developer experience, and putting scalable processes in place as the platform continues to grow.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Owning and evolving the cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP
  • Improving monitoring, alerting, and observability across production systems - leading incident management, on-call processes, and operational tooling
  • Shaping IAM and security practices, with scope to review and improve existing approaches
  • Partnering with product and engineering teams on cost awareness and reliability applying SRE principles across teams and helping set good operational standards
  • Improving developer tooling and workflows, supporting and overseeing key third-party and data platform services

What They're Looking For:

  • Multi-Cloud experience within AWS / GCP
  • Experience working as an SRE or in a reliability-focused platform role
  • Software experience ideally within Python, but open to other strong engineering backgrounds
  • Experience in SaaS or B2B environments
  • Comfortable forming opinions on tooling and architecture and explaining trade-offs
  • A collaborative engineer who can work autonomously and influence how teams operate

If you're interested in a senior SRE role with real ownership, influence, and scope to shape how reliability is done in a growing SaaS business, get in touch to find out more.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Fully Remote - UK

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.

Requirements

  • Multi-Cloud experience within AWS / GCP
  • Experience working as an SRE or in a reliability-focused platform role
  • Software experience ideally within Python, but open to other strong engineering backgrounds
  • Experience in SaaS or B2B environments
  • Comfortable forming opinions on tooling and architecture and explaining trade-offs
  • A collaborative engineer who can work autonomously and influence how teams operate

If you're interested in a senior SRE role with real ownership, influence, and scope to shape how reliability is done in a growing SaaS business, get in touch to find out more.

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