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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • Company: Get A Job.ai
  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Salary: Pay not listed

Website Get A Job.ai

Represented by Get A Job.ai

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential technology organization seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their operations team in the United Kingdom. Our client operates cloud-based platforms at scale and requires an experienced professional to ensure reliability, availability, and performance across production environments.

This role involves managing production infrastructure, developing observability solutions, and working closely with engineering teams to build a culture of reliability throughout the software delivery lifecycle. You'll be part of a team that proactively addresses platform challenges through automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure platform reliability and availability across production and pre-production environments through proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation
  • Serve as first response for incidents and contribute to problem management and root cause analysis
  • Support development teams in building reliability into the development lifecycle
  • Develop troubleshooting documentation and operational runbooks for production support
  • Collaborate with engineering and cloud teams to embed reliability and performance best practices
  • Design, implement, and evolve observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack
  • Participate in on-call rotations and continuously improve alert quality and response processes
  • Champion a culture of reliability, performance, and continuous improvement across teams

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
  • Proven experience operating container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes or Docker Swarm)
  • Experience developing or maintaining software for production services at scale
  • Hands-on experience with ELK stack
  • Strong AWS cloud platform experience
  • Experience with Grafana and Prometheus monitoring stack
  • Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams
  • Proactive mindset with ability to anticipate challenges and question existing processes
  • Team player comfortable working in agile/lean environments

Preferred qualifications:

  • Telephony knowledge (SIP, VoIP)
  • Linux administration experience (RedHat, CentOS, Amazon Linux)
  • Configuration management tools experience (Terraform, Ansible)
  • TCP/IP and networking concepts
  • RDBMS knowledge (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • NoSQL experience (Redis)

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please apply exclusively through our platform and do not contact the client directly, as all applications are managed through our talent team.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications.

Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We evaluate all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.

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on-call
You may be required to be reachable and available to work outside normal scheduled hours, typically for a set rotation.

Working in United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a population of over 69 million in 2024. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering 94,354 square miles (244,376 km2). It shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Se

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Real GDP growth in United Kingdom: 1.4% (annual) — via World Bank

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    • Achievement Orientation
    • Intellectual Curiosity
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    • Role Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    • Employer Get A Job.ai
    • Location United Kingdom
    • Type Full Time
    • Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
    • Posted September 12, 2026
    • Apply by October 13, 2026
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Overview Full job description on this page (430 words)

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    • Study product characteristics or customer requirements to determine validation objectives and standards.
    • Analyze validation test data to determine whether systems or processes have met validation criteria or to identify root causes of production problems.
    • Develop validation master plans, process flow diagrams, test cases, or standard operating procedures.
    • Prepare detailed reports or design statements, based on results of validation and qualification tests or reviews of procedures and protocols.
    • Maintain validation test equipment.
    • Conduct validation or qualification tests of new or existing processes, equipment, or software in accordance with internal protocols or external standards.

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