Senior Site Reliability Engineer (GCP

Role Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (GCP)

Location: Manchester, UK

Employment Type: Inside IR35 Contract

Essential skills and experience

• Google Cloud Platform
• Strong hands-on GCP engineering and operations experience across production services.
• Relevant GCP certification is preferred.
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Demonstrable SRE experience improving availability, resilience, scalability, supportability and operational performance.
• Dynatrace & observability
• Instrumentation, dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, service health modelling and SLO-based alerting using Dynatrace.
• Terraform
• Strong Infrastructure as Code capability, including modular design, reusable components, state management, code review and maintainability.
• Kubernetes & containers
• Production Kubernetes administration and Docker knowledge, including deployments, upgrades, networking, capacity and troubleshooting.
• CI/CD engineering
• Hands-on Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or comparable tooling for build, test, infrastructure and deployment automation.
• Scripting & coding
• Practical automation using Python, Groovy, Bash or PowerShell, with sound software engineering and source-control practices.
• Incident management
• Major incident response, structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, problem management and post-incident improvement.
• Cloud security
• Working knowledge of IAM, least privilege, secrets, secure configuration, policy controls and operational risk management.
• Networking & APIs
• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix, DNS, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, firewalls, VPC connectivity, HTTP and API troubleshooting.
• DevOps & toil reduction
• Automation-first mindset and experience replacing repetitive operational activity with reliable engineering solutions.
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Ability to explain service risk and technical options clearly and work effectively across engineering, product, security and operations teams.