Salary: £60,000 - 80,000 per year Requirements: Strong, hands-on Terraform experience in production environments Proven experience operating and improving cloud-based platforms Confidence making architectural and operational decisions Ability to mentor others and raise the technical bar of the team Deep experience with container platforms or managed Kubernetes (useful, but not required) Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog (useful, but not required) Knowledge of GitOps practices and strong documentation habits (useful, but not required) Responsibilities: Take a senior, hands-on role in shaping the platform and guiding technical direction Design and evolve cloud infrastructure using Terraform as a first-class practice Improve platform reliability, scalability, and security posture Work closely with development teams to enable safe, efficient delivery Lead by example on observability, incident analysis, and operational discipline Help define and embed SRE best practices as the team grows Technologies: Cloud Datadog GitOps Kubernetes Security Terraform DevOps More: We are a rapidly scaling software engineering department based in Southampton, offering a hybrid work model (2 days onsite). This new senior hire will join an existing SRE team of two to build a robust, secure, and repeatable platform that empowers developers to ship with confidence. Our focus is on thoughtful engineering and team growth without the typical on-call expectations, prioritizing resilience over constant failure. last updated 5 week of 2026