Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Senior SRE - Site Reliability Engineering for Observability Location: London (Mostly Remote | 1 Day/Week in Office) Pay Rate: £50 - £62 per hour (Inside IR35) Contract Duration: Initial 12 Months Working Hours: 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM About the Role We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-impact Observability team within a leading global tech environment. This is a hands-on, senior-level role focused on building and scaling large-scale monitoring and logging platforms that ensure service reliability, performance, and visibility. If you're passionate about distributed systems, high-throughput data pipelines, and enabling engineering teams with top-tier observability tooling-this is the role for you. What You'll Be Doing Designing and operating observability platforms (logging, monitoring, alerting) at scale. Managing large, high-performance ElasticSearch clusters and Prometheus deployments. Building scalable data pipelines using Kafka to process millions of events per second. Developing tools, APIs, and dashboards to enable self-service observability for engineering teams. Automating infrastructure using Terraform and configuration with Ansible. Participating in on-call rotations to ensure platform uptime and responsiveness. What We're Looking For 5 years of experience in SRE/DevOps roles, managing large-scale systems Strong technical knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) environments Proven experience with observability tools such as: ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite Kafka, Thanos, Cortex Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform, Ansible) Scripting/programming skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Bash, or Scala Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in complex distributed systems A proactive, collaborative approach with a customer-focused mindsetThis is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it khushboo. pandey @ randstad. Co. uk Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy