Site Reliability Engineer
Posted 2 weeks ago by Jobserve
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Site Reliability Engineer role focuses on maintaining the reliability, scalability, and performance of large-scale customer-facing platforms. This hands-on position involves working with CDN/edge, cloud infrastructure, and modern SRE practices. The engineer will ensure performance across a dual-CDN environment and enhance automation and observability capabilities. The role is hybrid and offers a competitive daily rate within the IR35 framework.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operating and optimising CDN platforms across a dual-vendor setup (Fastly & Akamai)
- Working with edge logic (routing, caching, headers, traffic management)
- Building and managing infrastructure using Terraform and automation tooling
- Running and improving Kubernetes platforms in production
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Driving automation to reduce operational toil and improve efficiency
- Supporting distributed data and caching platforms (Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, etc.)
- Enhancing observability using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog and CloudWatch
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering roles
- Solid knowledge of cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Exposure to CDN/edge platforms (Fastly, Akamai or similar)
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and automation
- Strong Scripting skills (Bash, Python or similar)
- Experience working with distributed systems or data platforms (Kafka, Redis, etc.)
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Site Reliability Engineer (CDN/Cloud/Kubernetes) - paying up to £600 Inside IR35 - Hybrid (London) - 6 month contract
We're hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-impact engineering team responsible for keeping large-scale, customer-facing platforms reliable, scalable and fast. This is a hands-on role working across CDN/edge, cloud infrastructure and modern SRE practices.
You'll play a key role in ensuring performance and reliability across a dual-CDN environment, while helping to evolve automation, observability and platform engineering capabilities.
What you'll be doing:
- Operating and optimising CDN platforms across a dual-vendor setup (Fastly & Akamai)
- Working with edge logic (routing, caching, headers, traffic management)
- Building and managing infrastructure using Terraform and automation tooling
- Running and improving Kubernetes platforms in production
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Driving automation to reduce operational toil and improve efficiency
- Supporting distributed data and caching platforms (Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, etc.)
- Enhancing observability using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog and CloudWatch
What we're looking for:
- Strong experience in SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering roles
- Solid knowledge of cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Exposure to CDN/edge platforms (Fastly, Akamai or similar)
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and automation
- Strong Scripting skills (Bash, Python or similar)
- Experience working with distributed systems or data platforms (Kafka, Redis, etc.)
Why apply?
- Work on high-scale systems used by millions of users
- Modern tech stack across cloud, Kubernetes and edge platforms
- Strong engineering culture with a focus on automation and best practice
- Opportunity to shape platform reliability and tooling in a growing team
