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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Spectrum IT Recruitment
- **Location:** Southampton, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, DevOps, Reliability Engineering, Datadog, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5952945409

## About the Role

* Strong, hands-on Terraform experience in production environments
 * Proven experience operating and improving cloud-based platforms
 * Confidence making architectural and operational decisions
 * Ability to mentor others and raise the technical bar of the team
 * Deep experience with container platforms or managed Kubernetes (useful, but not required)
 * Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog (useful, but not required)
 * Understanding of GitOps practices and strong documentation habits (useful, but not required)

## Description

* Take a senior, hands-on role in shaping the platform and guiding technical direction
 * Design and evolve cloud infrastructure using Terraform as a first-class practice
 * Improve platform reliability, scalability, and security posture
 * Work closely with development teams to enable safe, efficient delivery
 * Lead by example on observability, incident analysis, and operational discipline
 * Help define and embed SRE best practices as the team grows
 * Maintain a focus on building resilient systems, avoiding constant failure

Technologies:

 * Cloud
 * Datadog
 * GitOps
 * Support
 * Kubernetes
 * Security
 * Terraform
 * DevOps