Senior Site Reliability Engineer – West Midlands (Remote)

The Role

As a Senior SRE, you will be responsible for designing and maintaining highly reliable systems capable of scaling with rapid platform growth. You will work across platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure automation, cloud security, and observability, ensuring systems remain resilient, secure, and performant under increasing demand.

This role goes beyond incident response; You will help build the infrastructure, tooling, and engineering standards that proactively prevent issues before they impact users.

Key Responsibilities 

• Maintain highly available production systems and restore services quickly during incidents
• Lead incident management processes and make effective operational decisions under pressure
• Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment architectures
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines, release management processes, and deployment workflows
• Improve system monitoring, telemetry, logging, and observability across the platform stack
• Manage cloud infrastructure, security controls, permissions, and access management
• Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and operationally efficient from the outset
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and reliability best practices across the engineering function

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps environments
• Strong AWS and services experience such as ECS/Fargate, EC2, Lambda, SQS, and IAM
• Proven experience managing and scaling production-grade systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and scalability principles
• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerised infrastructure
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Amazon ECS orchestration environments
• Strong understanding of infrastructure reliability, performance optimisation, and cloud operations

TechNest Talent and all our clients are committed to building inclusive teams that reflect diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage applications from individuals across all backgrounds, including those who may not meet every listed requirement but believe they can add value to the role and organisation. That being said, this role will not be able to offer sponsorship and you must hold appropriate RTW status.