🚀 Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) – AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform
💰 Up to £600/day (Inside IR35)
📍 Hybrid – London
📅 6-Month Contract (Likely Extension)
🔍 The Opportunity
We’re looking for 2x Senior Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join a household-name product company.
You’ll work alongside an experienced Infrastructure Lead and multiple engineering teams to scale platform capabilities 📈, strengthen reliability 🛠️, and drive automation across build & deployment ⚙️
🧠 What You’ll Be Doing
* Own and enhance CI/CD pipelines & release workflows (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab / CircleCI) 🔄
* Operate and optimise Kubernetes environments (EKS primarily, GKE exposure a bonus) ☸️
* Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform 🏗️
* Champion reliability engineering: observability 👀, incident response 🚨, performance & cost optimisation 💡, and security best practices 🔐
* Drive automation across environments and collaborate with cross-functional teams 🤝
✅ What You’ll Bring
* Strong hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, networking, EKS/ECR, CloudWatch, etc.) ☁️
* Deep expertise in Kubernetes & containerisation (Docker) 🐳
* Solid experience with Terraform & IaC best practices 📦
* Proven track record delivering CI/CD pipelines end-to-end 🚀
* A senior, self-sufficient communicator who can mentor and work across multiple teams 💬
⭐ Nice to Have
* Experience with service mesh & observability tools (Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) 📊
* Policy as code exposure 📜
* Scripting skills (Bash / Python / Go) 💻
* Experience with GKE or multi-cloud environments 🌍
👉 Interested? If you’ve got the skills and want to work on a high-impact platform, apply now!