Senior SRE

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Senior SRE
£65,000 to 85,000 GBP
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Hybrid WORKING
Location: Glasgow, Scotland - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Glasgow or Greater Manchester (Hybrid)
£65,000 - £86,000 base + bonus

We're hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate highly reliable, scalable and secure platforms supporting mission-critical applications and data systems in a large, complex enterprise environment.

This is a hands-on SRE role for an engineer who enjoys working across software, infrastructure, and operations, using automation and engineering best practices to drive availability, performance, and resilience at scale.

What you'll be doing
Build & Reliability Engineering Design, build and maintain high-quality infrastructure platforms and services.
Apply software engineering principles to improve reliability, scalability, performance and operability.
Contribute to technical strategy, standards and long-term platform evolution.
Incident Management & Resilience Lead and participate in incident response, root cause analysis and blameless post-mortems.
Use data and observability to reduce mean time to detect and resolve.
Drive improvements through SLOs, error budgets and reliability metrics.
Automation & Engineering Excellence Develop automation and tooling using scripting and programming to remove toil.
Build CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and self-service capabilities.
Champion continuous improvement through experimentation and measurement.
Security & Risk Ensure secure configuration and operation of platforms.
Embed security controls and resilience patterns into infrastructure by design.
Collaboration & Leadership Work closely with product, architecture and engineering teams to define platform requirements and solutions.
Influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and help mature SRE practices across the organisation.
What we're looking for Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
Solid programming and scripting skills (e.g. Python, Go, Bash).
Deep understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems and cloud platforms.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
Strong incident response, troubleshooting and fault-analysis skills using a scientific, data-driven approach.
Experience with observability: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting and performance analysis.
Ability to explain complex systems clearly and influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have Experience driving SRE maturity (SLOs, error budgets, reliability reviews).
Exposure to large-scale, regulated or high-availability environments.
Interest in using AI/ML to improve operations, monitoring or incident response.
Passion for teaching, mentoring and building engineering culture.
Why join Work on large-scale, business-critical platforms with real impact.
Influence reliability, resilience and engineering standards across a complex organisation.
Competitive salary (£65k-£86k) plus bonus and strong benefits.
Hybrid working with base locations in Glasgow or Greater Manchester.
If you're an experienced SRE or platform engineer who enjoys solving complex reliability problems, building automation, and shaping how modern infrastructure is operated at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

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