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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer - South East London

- **Company:** Spectrum IT Recruitment
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Linux, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Networking Basics, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, TCP/IP, Datadog, Scripting, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Kubernetes, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Splunk, Docker
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5928847356

## About the Role

* Experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Cloud Operations, or NOC environment
 * Exposure to Linux systems administration
 * Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure
 * Exposure to Kubernetes and Docker
 * Experience with production support and incident management
 * Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go
 * Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch
 * Understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, TCP/IP, and load balancing
 * A passion for automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, SRE principles such as SLIs and SLOs, or regulated environments is beneficial but not essential

## Description

* Monitor and maintain highly available production platforms running in AWS
 * Respond to and manage production incidents across a 24/7 service
 * Investigate complex technical issues and restore services quickly and effectively
 * Develop automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve platform resilience
 * Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across cloud environments
 * Work alongside Software, Platform, Cloud, and Security Engineers to improve reliability and operational excellence
 * Contribute to post-incident reviews and drive continuous service improvements
 * Support containerised workloads using Kubernetes and Docker

Technologies:

 * AI
 * AWS
 * Bash
 * Cloud
 * CloudWatch
 * Datadog
 * Docker
 * Grafana
 * Support
 * Kubernetes
 * Linux
 * Load Balancing
 * Prometheus
 * Python
 * Security
 * Splunk
 * TCP/IP
 * Terraform
 * DevOps