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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - **Company:** Xpertise Recruitment - **Location:** West Drayton, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Ansible, Datadog, Cloudformation, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Splunk, Devsecops, Docker - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815088229-site-reliability-engineer-sre ## About the Role * 3-5 years in an SRE or closely related reliability/DevSecOps discipline * Strong knowledge of SRE practices: monitoring, observability, incident response, automation * Hands-on with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation) * Experience with CI/CD pipelines and container platforms (Docker / Kubernetes) * Comfortable working with vendors, suppliers and internal product/engineering teams * Able to communicate clearly and influence engineering culture, not just build solutions * Exposure to large, complex or vendor-heavy environments is desirable * Hands-on role leadership through influence, not a line-manager post Interested in learning more? Please get in touch with Benjamin Applewhaite to discuss the role in confidence. ## Description Overview Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Location: London I am looking for a number of SREs for a large-scale digital organisation in the middle of a major engineering modernisation journey. This is not a BAU support role, this is a chance to help define what "good" looks like as SRE is brought fully in-house for the first time. You'll work across high-impact platforms (web/mobile, payments, CRM, operations, cloud) and play a key role in shifting the organisation away from ticket-driven support and towards proactive, automated, AWS-first, engineering-led reliability. Responsibilities * Embed SRE principles to improve availability, reliability, performance and incident response * Modernise legacy support by introducing automation, observability, shift-left practices and CI/CD * Work across multiple domains (web/mobile, payments, CRM, cloud infrastructure, airline systems) * Partner with vendors and internal engineering teams; influence technical and financial decisions * Define and drive SLOs/SLIs, service health metrics and standards * Troubleshoot, monitor and improve systems using tooling such as Datadog, Splunk etc. * Contribute to IaC, containerisation and cloud-native adoption (AWS, Terraform, Docker/K8s) * Mentor and support engineers as SRE ways of working are introduced across the organisation Experience * 3-5 years in an SRE or closely related reliability/DevSecOps discipline * Strong knowledge of SRE practices: monitoring, observability, incident response, automation * Hands-on with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation) * Experience with CI/CD pipelines and container platforms (Docker / Kubernetes) * Comfortable working with vendors, suppliers and internal product/engineering teams * Able to communicate clearly and influence engineering culture, not just build solutions * Exposure to large, complex or vendor-heavy environments is desirable * Hands-on role leadership through influence, not a line-manager post Interested in learning more? Please get in touch with Benjamin Applewhaite to discuss the role in confidence. Seniority level * Mid-Senior level Employment type * Full-time Job function * Information Technology Industries * Technology, Information and Internet ## Related Videos - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Dev & Test in the Cloud? 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