Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

• Day Rate: £450 – £500 per day
• Determination: Inside IR35
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid (2 days onsite per week in Manchester)
• Eligibility: Must have existing right to work in the UK without sponsorship

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer (GCP) to improve the reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence of cloud-hosted services. In this role, you will bridge software engineering and operations to reduce toil, maintain production Kubernetes, and embed robust observability across critical platform services.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion availability, scalability, and resilience across production GCP services and shared platforms.
• Define and operate SLIs, SLOs, and error-budget practices that link system health directly to customer outcomes.
• Design actionable observability, dashboards, distributed tracing, and SLO-based alerting using Dynatrace.
• Build modular, maintainable Terraform code for secure cloud infrastructure and environment provisioning.
• Administer production Kubernetes environments, covering cluster lifecycle, capacity, upgrades, and platform troubleshooting.
• Automate operational tasks and eliminate manual toil using Python, Bash, Groovy, or PowerShell.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps) with automated deployment controls.
• Lead incident response, complex troubleshooting, and evidence-based root-cause analysis to eliminate repeat failures.

Essential Experience

• Strong hands-on production engineering and operations experience within Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven SRE track record delivering measurable improvements in availability, resilience, and supportability.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code capability using Terraform (modular design, state management, and code reviews).
• Solid production Kubernetes administration and container orchestration skills.
• Practical observability expertise with Dynatrace (telemetry, distributed tracing, and service health modelling).
• Strong scripting capability for automation (Python, Bash, Groovy, or PowerShell).
• Confident working knowledge of Linux/Unix, cloud networking (VPC, DNS, routing, load balancers), and IAM least-privilege security.
• Confirmed UK right to work without requiring current or future sponsorship.

If you are interested please apply now! Or alternatively please send your CV to [email protected]