Site Reliability Engineer

Are you among the top 1% of Site Reliability Engineers in the UK? Our client an IT Service Management company is building a world-class SRE team to support a mission-critical Java-based platform used by millions. If you’re a hands-on engineer with a background in Linux systems, deep AWS expertise, and a passion for incident response, reliability, and scale, we want to hear from you. What You’ll Be Doing: Own and evolve our incident management and on-call processes Ensure uptime, scalability, and security across a massive infrastructure footprint Work with EKS, EC2, Load Balancers, VPC, CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation Write and maintain YAML, Python scripts, and internal tooling Define and track SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs to drive reliability Collaborate with platform engineers and developers to support a Java-based product Operate in a manual, tool-light environment while helping us scale and automate ✅ What We’re Looking For: 7–12 years of experience, with 5 years in SRE roles Strong Linux/System Admin foundation Proven experience in live incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis Deep AWS knowledge – you can speak to how you’ve used services like EKS, EC2, Load Balancers in production Experience with monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and security best practices Comfortable working in large-scale environments with thousands of endpoints Clear communicator who can document and share knowledge across teams Able to work independently and thrive in a globally distributed team