Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by TechNET IT Recruitment Ltd
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Site Reliability Engineer role involves supporting a major cloud and data platform transformation within a leading UK media and telecommunications organization. The position focuses on the migration of critical workloads from GCP to AWS, emphasizing operational excellence and reliability engineering. The role requires collaboration with engineering teams to enhance system performance and resilience in a large-scale environment. This is a 6-month contract classified as outside IR35, with a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and operational performance across Snowflake + dbt workloads
- Support cloud migration reliability engineering initiatives from GCP to AWS
- Build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks
- Drive incident management, RCA processes, and platform automation improvements
- Work closely with platform and engineering teams to improve resilience and performance across the wider data ecosystem
Key Skills:
- Strong AWS expertise across EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, and CloudWatch
- Proven hands-on experience operating and optimising Snowflake environments
- Strong dbt operational knowledge including model dependency troubleshooting
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, or Splunk
- CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform, GitLab, or Jenkins
- Strong understanding of SRE best practices including SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets, automation, and incident response
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: London (Hybrid – 1-2 days onsite)
Contract: Initial 6 Months
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
TechNET IT has partnered with a leading enterprise organisation within the UK media and telecommunications sector, supporting a major cloud and data platform transformation programme across a highly scalable environment.
We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join on an initial 6-month Outside IR35 contract, supporting the migration of critical Snowflake and dbt workloads from GCP to AWS.
This is an excellent opportunity to work within a large-scale engineering function focused on operational excellence, reliability engineering, automation, and modern cloud infrastructure practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and operational performance across Snowflake + dbt workloads
- Support cloud migration reliability engineering initiatives from GCP to AWS
- Build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks
- Drive incident management, RCA processes, and platform automation improvements
- Work closely with platform and engineering teams to improve resilience and performance across the wider data ecosystem
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong AWS expertise across EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, and CloudWatch
- Proven hands-on experience operating and optimising Snowflake environments
- Strong dbt operational knowledge including model dependency troubleshooting
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, or Splunk
- CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform, GitLab, or Jenkins
- Strong understanding of SRE best practices including SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets, automation, and incident response
Desirable Experience:
- Docker / Kubernetes / EKS
- Python automation
- Airflow or Prefect
- Secrets Management
- Experience supporting zero-downtime migration programmes
Background:
- 7–12+ years within software engineering or platform engineering environments
- 3–5+ years operating within dedicated SRE functions
- Experience within large-scale enterprise or cloud-native environments preferred
If interested, please apply directly or contact me for further information.