Site Reliability Engineer

This role is for the engineer who’s seen platforms creak under pressure — and knows what good looks like when it comes to resilience, automation, and developer enablement.

You’ll play a key role in shaping how a modern engineering org builds, deploys, and runs its systems. Less firefighting, more forward planning. Less repetition, more enablement.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and supporting scalable, secure cloud-native infrastructure (Azure, Terraform, AKS).
• Embedding SLOs, observability, and incident response as real practice — not just theory.
• Evolving CI/CD pipelines with GitOps, shift-left security, and smart delivery strategies.
• Building internal tooling, reusable modules, and platforms that empower developers.
• Driving smarter cloud usage through cost monitoring and optimisation.
• Owning the platform lifecycle — from proactive maintenance to incident retrospectives.

What you bring

• Real-world experience with cloud platforms — particularly Azure and Kubernetes-based workloads.
• Strong IaC mindset (Terraform) and scripting comfort (Bash, PowerShell).
• Knowledge of platform security, network fundamentals, and identity/access best practices.
• Familiarity with observability tooling and performance monitoring.
• Hands-on with GitOps tooling, autoscaling strategies, and DevSecOps workflows.
• A product mindset — you know internal platforms deserve just as much care as external ones.

Why this role?

It’s a chance to get stuck into meaningful platform work, not just keep the lights on. You’ll help shape how a growing engineering org thinks about reliability, speed, and safety — and leave your mark on the systems and tooling that power real product.

You’ll also get:

• £70–80k base + strong benefits package
• Remote, with occasional travel to Manchester
• Personal dev budget and health cover from day one

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: IT System Custom Software Development, Software Development, and IT System Operations and Maintenance

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