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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Reading Industrial Pertemps
London, UK
£50,000 – £50,000
about 16 hours ago
hybrid

Skills & Technologies

PythonBashPlatform EngineeringSite ReliabilityDevOpsSRETerraformJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CICI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDatadogNew RelicDNSGitHubGitLabSlack

Job Description

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Salary: £50,000 per annum Reporting to: Head of Technology Location: London-based | Hybrid working (2–8 days per month in the office)

We’re looking for an SRE with 2–3 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE who can write production-quality code and take ownership of platform automation, CI/CD, and developer tooling.

This is a hands-on role split between supporting engineers and building scalable infrastructure, automation, and observability solutions. You’ll work closely with the Head of Technology and engineering teams to improve reliability, developer experience, and platform performance.

What You’ll Be Doing Developer Support & Reliability

Troubleshoot and resolve failing builds, deployments, and CI/CD issues

Provide Tier 2/3 platform support through Slack, tickets, and pairing sessions

Own and manage production incidents with appropriate escalation

Improve developer workflows and reduce recurring operational friction

Support engineering teams with infrastructure and deployment best practices

Platform Engineering & Automation

Design, build, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Rundeck

Build reusable Terraform modules and manage infrastructure-as-code standards

Develop internal tooling, automation scripts, self-service tooling, and platform improvements

Own and improve observability across monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and runbooks

Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve platform reliability

Contribute to scalable, maintainable, and secure infrastructure practices

What We’re Looking For

2–3 years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering

Strong Linux troubleshooting skills

Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code

CI/CD pipeline experience

Strong Python and/or Bash scripting

Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancers, and CDNs

Experience with tools like New Relic, Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus

Comfortable using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or Copilot

If you have the relevant skills apply directly or call .

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