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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Understanding Recruitment - **Location:** Greater London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £150,000.0 - £200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Programming Tools, Key Management, Networking Basics, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Software Troubleshooting, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Low Latency, Terraform - **Published:** August 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.understandingrecruitment.com/job/senior-site-reliability-engineer/ ## About the Role * Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering. * Experience operating production infrastructure in cloud environments. * Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals. * Experience with monitoring, observability and alerting. * Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills. * Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation. * AWS, Terraform or Ansible experience would be advantageous. * Experience with high-performance, high-throughput or latency-sensitive systems would be particularly valuable. * Comfortable taking ownership of problems and driving improvements independently. ## Description 📍 London 💰 £150,000 - £200,000+ Base + Bonus + Equity We're partnered with a technology company building high-performance infrastructure for decentralised financial markets. They're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, observability and operational tooling behind a latency-sensitive production platform. The role covers production infrastructure, monitoring and alerting, incident diagnosis, deployment workflows, infrastructure automation and developer tooling. There is also a strong Linux and systems element, particularly around networking, host performance and running high-performance services in production. The platform is still relatively early, so there is plenty of scope to improve how things are operated, introduce better automation and help set the standards the wider engineering team works to. Responsibilities * Improve the reliability and operability of production systems. * Build and improve monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards and alerting. * Improve incident diagnosis, root cause analysis and operational workflows. * Build safer and more repeatable deployment and rollback processes. * Automate repetitive operational and infrastructure work. * Improve CI/CD pipelines and release processes. * Develop internal tooling that helps engineers operate production systems more effectively. * Improve the developer experience from local development through to production. * Work with Linux systems, networking, host configuration and resource contention. * Contribute to infrastructure security, access controls, secrets management and system hardening. The systems are latency-sensitive, so the role can extend into areas such as host-level tuning, kernel settings, CPU isolation and networking behaviour. Skills & Experience * Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering. * Experience operating production infrastructure in cloud environments. * Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals. * Experience with monitoring, observability and alerting. * Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills. * Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation. * AWS, Terraform or Ansible experience would be advantageous. * Experience with high-performance, high-throughput or latency-sensitive systems would be particularly valuable. * Comfortable taking ownership of problems and driving improvements independently. Benefits * £150,000 - £200,000+ base salary. * Significant performance-based bonus + Equity * Private healthcare. * UK visa sponsorship available. * Engineering-led organisation - built prioritising engineering culture * Direct influence over reliability, tooling and engineering practices. * Opportunity to work alongside a small, elite team. * Exposure to complex, latency-sensitive production systems. Interested? Contact Chris Williams with any questions. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) - [Dev & Test in the Cloud? 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