Site Reliability Engineer - Manchester - #2184087

£530 - £580 per day Inside IR35 via umbrella

Manchester

6-12 month contract

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is an established engineer who independently runs and improves cloud services, taking ownership of defined services or components and the SLOs that go with them. They deliver engineering work with limited supervision, handle incidents confidently, and help develop less experienced colleagues.

Responsibilities

Engineering and operations

• Operates significant parts of the data management system in the area, seeking guidance from senior colleagues on complex or high-risk decisions.
• Designs, builds and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling that remove manual toil.
• Improves CI/CD pipelines and release safety for their services.
• Carries out capacity planning, performance analysis and resilience testing.
• Takes part in the on-call rota and troubleshoots independently across the stack.
• Reviews peers' code and changes, and contributes to design discussions.

Essential

• Several years of experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services.
• Track record of improving reliability, and of responding to and learning from incidents.
• Experience mentoring or onboarding less experienced engineers.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Desirable

• GCP Professional certification, such as Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
• Kubernetes certification, such as CKA or CKAD.
• Experience with data platforms and data management systems.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.