Job Summary
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Private Cloud)
Location: Bristol (hybrid; at least 2 days per week at the Bristol office). Full time - 35 hours per week.
Salary: £72,702 - £80,780.
Flexible working options include hybrid, job share, and variable hours.
Responsibilities
- Support and enhance platform technologies, including VMware infrastructure, container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift), databases, and applications.
- Use Infrastructure as Code to manage environments and support CI/CD pipelines.
- Improve observability using tools such as Dynatrace, ensuring proactive monitoring and alerting.
- Lead and contribute to post mortems to identify and implement long term fixes.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack, including infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and applications.
- Work in Agile teams, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners across the organisation.
- Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years experience of DevOps principles, including Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD.
- 5+ years of experience with container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
- Hands on experience with VMware technologies in a production environment.
- Familiarity with observability platforms, such as Dynatrace.
- Proven ability to solve across a broad range of platform technologies.
- Experience with either Linux or Windows operating systems.
- An attitude focused on continuous improvement and reducing manual steps through automation.
- Experience with automation tools and APIs for infrastructure management.
- Exposure to configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet).
- Leadership or mentoring experience in technical teams.
- Certifications in VMware or any major cloud provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS).
- Background in system administration or software engineering with a strong interest in learning cloud native practices.
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of well being initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We value diverse backgrounds and strive to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.