Senior Site Reliability Engineer - #2166179

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Fully Remote | Quarterly travel to Leeds

£66,000 + 15% bonus

VIQU has partnered with an established, large-scale logistics organisation looking to appoint a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help strengthen the reliability, performance and scalability of its technology platforms.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced SRE or cloud infrastructure engineer who enjoys hands-on technical challenges and wants to develop their leadership responsibilities without moving away from engineering.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll spend approximately 80% of your time on technical delivery and 20% on people coordination, delegation and supporting a small team of engineers.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Improve AWS infrastructure reliability, security and scalability.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and application deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across applications and infrastructure.
• Implement monitoring, dashboards, SLOs and SLIs.
• Support containerised environments and shared engineering tooling.
• Work with development and architecture teams to improve engineering standards.
• Delegate technical tasks, provide guidance and support junior engineers.

Key Requirements of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Strong hands-on experience working with AWS.
• Practical Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, OpenTofu, AWS CDK or equivalent.
• Experience provisioning and managing infrastructure using version-controlled code rather than primarily manual configuration.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Concourse CI or similar.
• Experience with Docker and container registries.
• Strong Linux and/or Windows administration skills.
• Scripting experience using Python, Bash, Go or similar.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to delegate work and support colleagues.

Previous formal management experience is not required. Experienced hands-on engineers looking to step into leadership responsibilities are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

• £66,000 + 15% annual bonus.
• Fully remote working with quarterly travel to Leeds.
• At least 33 days' annual leave including bank holidays.
• Career progression and development opportunities.
• Flexible benefits, healthcare and insurance options.
• Free digital GP service for you and your family.
• Retail discounts and Cycle to Work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme, including free counselling.

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence, or contact Aaron on the VIQU website.

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