Site Reliability Engineer
Posted Today by Arrows Group Professional Limited
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The Site Reliability Engineer role focuses on maintaining and optimizing large-scale, customer-facing platforms, ensuring their reliability and performance. The position involves hands-on work with CDN, cloud infrastructure, and modern SRE practices. The engineer will be responsible for enhancing automation and observability within a dual-CDN environment. This is a 6-month contract role based in London, paying up to £650 per day inside IR35.
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): £650 daily
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Site Reliability Engineer (CDN/Cloud/Kubernetes) - paying up to £650 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
