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The Skills You'll Need: Site Reliability Engineer, CI/CD systems, CloudWatch alerting

Your New Salary: £45 to £64 per hour

London - Hybrid (1-2 days office)

12 months temporary agency worker

Start: ASAP

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - What You'll be Doing:

Reliability & Risk Engineering

* Identify systemic reliability risks and drive lasting preventative improvements.

* Define, implement, and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets aligned with business and customer outcomes.

* Lead sophisticated incident management, post-incident analysis, and extended remediation planning.

Architecture & Resilience

* Review and influence system architecture to improve scalability, availability, and failure isolation.

* Design strategies for high availability, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery across multi-region environments.

* Quantify tradeoffs between performance, cost, and operational risk.

CI/CD & Deployment Safety

* Upgrade deployment pipelines and implement automation that diminishes risk and quickens delivery.

* Implement safe deployment patterns (canary, blue/green, progressive delivery).

* Ensure robust rollback and recovery mechanisms.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

* Recent experience in site reliability or production engineering required

* Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems with deployment safety guardrails.

* Experience with multi-cloud or multi-region resilience architecture.

* Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

* Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

* Hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS, GCP, or Azure environments, including multi-region deployments.

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