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# Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

- **Company:** The Reward
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Kubernetes, Atlassian Tools, Terraform
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=72924fdc1a3ee957

## About the Role

* Good experience in DevOps or SRE, with a keen interest to learn and grow as a Site Reliability Engineer
 * Observability product experience (eg Datadog)
 * Managing services using SLI/SLO & Error Budgets
 * Experience with AWS or other cloud providers
 * Experience in HA environments
 * Automation skills through Terraform, Python, Bash or similar
 * Good SRE skills with a good understanding of SRE practices
 * Some understanding of SQL, PHP, Kubernetes, CI/CD advantageous
 * Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
 * Ability to work under pressure and be highly reliable
 * Adaptability and flexibility to change in a fast-moving environment
 * An ability to learn new tools and processes quickly and impart that knowledge

## Description

Due to expansion, an opportunity has become available for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team to help us transform our existing operational workloads to an SRE approach.

Some of your responsibilities & core duties will include:

 * Integrating tightly with our Product Engineering teams
 * Following SRE practices and maintaining high standards of compliance
 * Implementing a new standard of observability utilising SLI/SLO/Error Budgets
 * Continually evolving our observability platforms for greater coverage
 * Using a code-first approach to build and changes to reduce TOIL
 * Advocating a strong focus on availability, reliability and uptime
 * Liaising and embedding with the Engineering teams for the constant evolution of metrics
 * Working towards planned roadmap goals
 * Actively taking part in the daily stand-ups and keeping sprints on track
 * Keeping up-to-date documentation in the JIRA & Confluence tools
 * Taking part in SRE Incident Management processes
 * Acting as a key Incident Commander within the Incident Management process
 * Taking part in SRE On Call
 * Ensuring a focus on cost efficiency for the platforms & services
 * Working with team members to foster collaboration and ongoing communication with stakeholders


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