Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer -Cloud Kubernetes Platform

Location: Leeds/Bristol, UK-hybrid

Hybrid/Remote: 3 days /week onsite

Mode of employment: Inside IR 35 Contract

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Cloud Platform team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing large-scale Kubernetes clusters on public cloud environments (AKS, EKS, or GKE) and a strong understanding of modern SRE and DevOps practices. You will be responsible for ensuring high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor, and optimize large-scale Kubernetes clusters hosted on public cloud platforms (Azure AKS, AWS EKS, or Google GKE).

• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform.

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve system reliability and deployment automation.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.

• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.

• Automate operational tasks using Python or other scripting languages.

• Contribute to observability and monitoring improvements using modern tools and best practices.

• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response processes.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5–9 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.

• Strong hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production (AKS/EKS/GKE).

• Proficiency with Terraform and cloud infrastructure automation.

• Practical experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline management.

• Sound understanding of SRE principles (incident management, blameless postmortems, capacity planning, error budgets, etc.).

• Good programming or scripting skills in Python (preferred) or similar languages.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for observability.

• Exposure to GitOps practices and tools (e.g. Flux).