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Site Reliability Engineer
And Digital · Reading, ENG, United Kingdom
Reading, ENG, United KingdomOnsite
Remuneration
25 days of bookable holiday plus flexible bank holidays; employer pension contribution of 6% of salary with a further 2% employee contribution; healthcare cover; £1,000 flexible benefits allowance; life assurance; income protection; eye test and first pair of glasses; enhanced maternity and partner leave.
Location
Reading, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Site Reliability Engineer builds and operates reliable cloud platforms, ensuring availability, performance, monitoring, and effective incident response. The role focuses on Microsoft Azure infrastructure managed with Terraform and production Kubernetes clusters such as AKS, while automating operations and CI/CD workflows. It also leads incident reviews and works with development teams to define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Benefits
25 days of bookable holidayFlexible bank holidaysPension contributionHealthcare cover1,000 flexible benefits allowanceLife assuranceIncome protectionEye test and first pair of glassesEnhanced maternity and partner leave
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience designing, provisioning, securing, and maintaining scalable Azure environments.
- Experience creating modular, reusable Terraform modules.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and production administration.
- Proficiency in Bash and at least one of Python or Go, plus modern CI/CD tooling.
- Knowledge of cloud networking, including DNS, routing, load balancers, and VPNs.
- Knowledge of identity management, secret management, and least-privilege security.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant Azure infrastructure and platforms.
- Provision and maintain infrastructure deployments using Terraform.
- Manage, secure, and scale production Kubernetes clusters, including AKS.
- Automate operational tasks, self-healing systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Lead incident response, participate in an on-call rotation, and conduct blameless postmortems.
- Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with development teams.
Skills
AKSAnsibleArgo CDAzureAzure DevOpsAzure Key VaultBashDatadogFluxGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLabGoHelmKubernetesNew RelicPythonTerraformVault
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect ExpertCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Languages
BashPythonGo
Work schedule
On-call rotation
Industry
Technology
Relocation
No