Summary
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Work remotely as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on AWS infrastructure, automation, operational resilience, and production reliability. You will design scalable infrastructure, build CI/CD tooling, establish reliability metrics, resolve complex incidents, improve operational processes, and mentor other engineers.
Highlights
Fully remote UK role with compensation up to £66,000 plus bonus, offering hands-on work in AWS, automation, reliability, security, and operational resilience alongside mentoring and technical leadership opportunities.
Description
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Remote – UK
Up to £66,000 + Bonus
VIQU are partnering with a leading organisation to appoint a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on AWS, automation, reliability, and operational resilience.
This hands-on role offers the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while mentoring and technically leading others.
Key Responsibilities of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer:
• Improve engineering efficiency through automation, resilience, and security
• Design and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure
• Develop AWS infrastructure using CDK, ideally with TypeScript
• Resolve complex production and reliability issues
• Build and maintain CI/CD and automation tooling
• Develop monitoring and reliability dashboards
• Define and measure SLOs and SLIs
• Support reliable deployments, troubleshooting, and rollback
• Maintain runbooks and operational documentation
• Improve technology standards and operational processes
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance
Key Experience Required of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer:
• Strong AWS experience
• Must-have AWS CDK experience; TypeScript preferred, Python considered
• Strong Linux and/or Windows administration skills
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Ansible or CloudFormation
• Hands-on CI/CD experience with Jenkins, Concourse CI, GitLab, or similar
• Experience with Docker and containers
• Scripting experience using Bash, Python, Go, or similar
• Strong production troubleshooting skills
• Experience with monitoring, SLOs, SLIs, and reliability
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience mentoring, technically leading, or taking ownership within a team
• Interest in developing leadership skills while remaining hands-on as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence, or reach out to Fay Toomey via the VIQU IT website.
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