Site Reliability Engineer

• Own our platform engineering practice
• Define engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across platform engineering, DevOps, and quality engineering
• Lead implementation of an observability strategy, introducing telemetry, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting to provide meaningful insight into application and platform health
• Improve our Azure platform capabilities and help bring greater Infrastructure as Code ownership in-house
• Review and evolve our existing Playwright automation estate, enabling developers to take greater ownership of automated testing through modern practices
• Optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve build performance, deployment speed, and release confidence
• Work alongside the Tech Lead to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across web and mobile platforms
• Help shape the capabilities needed to support AI-assisted, spec-driven software delivery
• Work with the CTO and Tech Leads to influence technical direction, architecture, and engineering culture
• Define standards, select tooling, build reusable frameworks, and coach development teams

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CTO
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Support
• JavaScript
• Kibana
• Mobile
• Playwright
• React
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• Web
• ASP.NET, We are investing in our engineering capability as we modernise our technology estate and embrace AI-assisted software delivery. Reporting to the CTO, this Site Reliability Engineer will help shape the evolution of platform engineering, reliability, and quality. Our Azure platform, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD foundations are established, and we are looking to take them further. This role offers meaningful influence and ownership without making the engineer a bottleneck or responsible for every deployment. The position is based in Central Manchester, with a hybrid working model of three days per week in our new offices. Salary is up to £80,000, plus benefits including a bonus and private healthcare.

• Experienced Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Senior DevOps Engineer comfortable influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure DevOps and cloud-native services
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, Terraform, or similar
• Experience designing and optimising CI/CD pipelines
• Experience implementing observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Kibana, or similar
• Experience with modern automation frameworks, including Playwright or an equivalent JavaScript testing framework
• Experience coaching engineering teams and embedding platform engineering best practices
• Experience supporting large-scale, customer-facing digital platforms
• Experience with .NET, React, and TypeScript is beneficial