Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Ready to take your cloud engineering career to the next level?

Are you an experienced Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Engineer or DevOps professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving systems and making a real difference?

We're working with a leading global technology company that develops innovative cloud-based software used by organisations within the public safety and justice sectors.

Their technology plays an important role in helping emergency services and public safety organisations manage critical information and deliver essential services.

As the business continues to grow, they're looking for a talented Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Cloud Platform Engineering team in Southampton.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with modern Azure technologies, tackle interesting engineering challenges and help shape the future of business-critical cloud platforms.

What will you be doing?

This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll have the opportunity to make a genuine impact on the performance, security and reliability of cloud-based services.

Working alongside a talented team of Cloud Engineers, DevOps professionals and Developers, you'll help ensure platforms run smoothly, efficiently and reliably.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Keeping Azure cloud platforms running reliably, securely and efficiently.

• Investigating technical issues, identifying root causes and putting long-term solutions in place.

• Improving monitoring and observability using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor and OpenTelemetry.

• Working with Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to support and improve containerised applications.

• Finding opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and make systems easier to manage.

• Helping improve cloud performance, scalability and cost efficiency.

• Building dashboards, alerts and monitoring solutions that provide greater visibility into platform health.

• Working closely with development and engineering teams to improve software reliability.

• Contributing ideas and technical expertise to cloud architecture and platform improvements.

• Exploring how AI-assisted tools can help improve automation, troubleshooting and engineering productivity.

• Supporting security, governance and compliance across cloud environments.

You'll have plenty of opportunity to take ownership, share ideas and influence how the company's cloud platforms evolve.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for someone who enjoys getting stuck into technical challenges, has a passion for cloud technology and takes pride in building reliable, scalable systems.

Ideally, you'll bring experience in several of the following areas:

• Microsoft Azure: Strong hands-on experience supporting and improving production cloud environments.

• Kubernetes: Experience working with containerised applications, ideally using AKS.

• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates.

• Monitoring and Observability: Knowledge of Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry or similar technologies, including building metrics, dashboards and alerts.

• Scripting and Automation: Good skills in PowerShell, Python, C# or a similar programming language.

• Cloud Architecture: Understanding of microservices, scalable systems and cloud infrastructure.

• Troubleshooting: Confidence investigating complex technical problems and implementing lasting improvements.

• Databases and Data: Knowledge of SQL Server, Elasticsearch and formats such as YAML, JSON and XML.

• Reliability Engineering: Experience working with SLAs, SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.

• Version Control: Experience using Git or similar tools.

Just as importantly, we're looking for someone who enjoys collaborating with others, sharing knowledge and continuously finding better ways of doing things.

Why consider this opportunity?

This is more than simply keeping cloud systems running.

You'll be joining a business whose technology supports essential public safety services, giving you the opportunity to work on platforms where reliability really matters.

You can look forward to:

• Working with modern Azure cloud technologies and engineering tools.

• Being part of a collaborative, knowledgeable Cloud Platform Engineering team.

• Taking ownership of meaningful technical challenges.

• Having a genuine say in how platforms and processes are improved.

• Opportunities to explore automation, AI and emerging technologies.

• Working on business-critical software used by organisations around the world.

• Hybrid working, with time spent at the Southampton office.

Interested in finding out more?

If you're an experienced SRE, Azure Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer or Platform Engineer looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

You don't necessarily need to have held the exact title of Site Reliability Engineer. If you have strong Azure experience, enjoy automation and understand what it takes to keep production platforms reliable, this could be a great next step.

Important - Security Clearance

Due to the nature of the systems involved, applicants must have lived continuously in the UK for the past five years and be eligible to obtain NPPV3 and UK Security Clearance.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.