Senior Site Reliability Engineer d/f/m

Swindon Source: WhatJobs
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Overview

As a Senior SRE for the Kubernetes Platform, you will own and operate a central, automated EKS-based Kubernetes service across RWEST, enabling development teams to focus on applications. You will shape platform standards, lifecycle, security, and observability, driving reliability and ease of consumption. Join a cross-functional team tasked with evolving the platform to meet enterprise-scale needs. This role offers impact through building secure, self-service tooling and guardrails that scale across multiple squads.

Responsibilities

  • Operate and improve the central Amazon EKS platform, including day-2 operations, upgrades and support
  • Provide a secure, self-service Kubernetes platform with automated guardrails for developers
  • Contribute to platform standards across cluster config, monitoring, networking, security and lifecycle
  • Maintain 24x7 operational model for Kubernetes and related services (GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, JFrog, Elastic)
  • Build automation, IaC and reusable platform patterns to reduce manual work
  • Enhance observability through monitoring, logging, alerting and operational visibility
  • Strengthen security and compliance via guardrails, governance and automated controls
  • Collaborate with development squads for onboarding and platform adoption
  • Contribute to incident response, RCAs and continuous platform improvement
  • Document standards and establish the central SRE Platform Team as owner of shared services

Key requirements

  • Extensive experience designing, operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems
  • Experience operating AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms at scale
  • Experience designing secure, resilient, highly available production environments
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, networking, storage, security and scheduling
  • Experience managing platform lifecycle activities (upgrades, maintenance, readiness)
  • Strong automation mindset with IaC and configuration as code
  • Experience applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations
  • Experience designing reusable, cross-team solutions
  • Strong observability knowledge (metrics, logs, traces)
  • Experience integrating security, governance and compliance
  • Experience supporting production environments, incident response and continuous improvement
  • Knowledge of modern software delivery and engineering automation
  • Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills
  • ownership mindset
  • problem solving
  • clear communication
  • Kubernetes production operations
  • AWS
  • IaC (infrastructure as code)

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