Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Opus Recruitment Solutions

Manor Park, United Kingdom

2 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Compensation

£ 169K

Job location

Manor Park, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure

Cloud Computing

Computer Programming

Python

Reliability Engineering

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

A leading London based organisation is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their platform and reliability function on a 6 month contract. This role is outside IR35 and offers the opportunity to shape and optimise a modern multi cloud environment across AWS and Azure.

What you'll be doing

Driving reliability, scalability, and performance across AWS and Azure platforms
Designing and implementing infrastructure using Terraform
Managing and optimising production Kubernetes clusters
Building automation, tooling, and internal services using Python and Go
Enhancing observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and related monitoring stacks
Implementing and running chaos engineering practices using tools such as Gremlin, Litmus, or similar
Improving incident response, on call processes, and overall platform resilience
Collaborating with engineering teams to strengthen CI/CD pipelines and cloud native architectures

Requirements

Deep experience operating in AWS and Azure environments
Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering principles
Proven expertise with Kubernetes in production
Advanced Terraform skills
Programming experience with Python and Go
Hands on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and modern observability tooling
Exposure to chaos engineering tools and methodologies
A proactive mindset focused on reliability, performance, and continuous improvement