Site Reliability Engineer
Posted 2 weeks ago by hackajob
Negotiable
Fixed-Term
Remote
Morley, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Site Reliability Engineer role at Evri focuses on enhancing the cloud platform's reliability and engineering excellence through hands-on work with AWS, container orchestration, and CI/CD ecosystems. This position is a 12-month fixed-term contract that allows for remote work with occasional travel to Morley, Leeds for collaboration. The engineer will play a crucial role in ensuring system resilience and operational excellence while mentoring other engineers. The role emphasizes the importance of architectural decision-making and embedding quality and security into engineering practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive architectural and technical decision-making, ensuring infrastructure and platform designs support long-term scalability, reliability and security.
- Partner with Delivery to plan and prioritise platform and infrastructure work for maximum technical and operational impact.
- Mentor engineers and uplift technical capability, championing strong engineering practices and continuous improvement.
- Shape technical strategy by contributing to architectural roadmaps, standards, and patterns—balancing innovation with long-term risk and resilience.
- Embed quality, security, performance and compliance into all engineering designs, processes and operational workflows.
Key Skills:
- Experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in container orchestration and CI/CD ecosystems.
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering practices.
- Ability to mentor and uplift engineering teams.
- Experience in architectural decision-making and technical strategy development.
- Knowledge of security, performance, and compliance in engineering.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Morley
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
hackajob is collaborating with Evri to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Site Reliability Engineer – Build, Scale and Elevate Evri’s Cloud Platform Ready to take ownership of world-class cloud reliability and engineering excellence? Please note this is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract role If you love building and optimising cloud platforms, solving complex distributed-system challenges, and empowering engineering teams through automation and reliability practices, this role gives you the scope and autonomy to make a real technical impact at Evri. This role is remote-first, with occasional travel to Morley, Leeds for key collaboration sessions and engineering workshops.
What You’ll Be Doing As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll help shape and strengthen Evri’s cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering practices and operational excellence. You’ll work hands-on across AWS, container orchestration, observability platforms, and CI/CD ecosystems to ensure our systems are resilient, secure and optimised for scale. Your work will be critical in enabling product teams to ship fast, safely and with confidence — all while improving performance, reducing risk, and ensuring Evri remains one of the most reliable logistics platforms in the UK.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive architectural and technical decision-making, ensuring infrastructure and platform designs support long-term scalability, reliability and security.
- Partner with Delivery to plan and prioritise platform and infrastructure work for maximum technical and operational impact.
- Mentor engineers and uplift technical capability, championing strong engineering practices and continuous improvement.
- Shape technical strategy by contributing to architectural roadmaps, standards, and patterns—balancing innovation with long-term risk and resilience.
- Embed quality, security, performance and compliance into all engineering designs, processes and operational workflows, ens