Spectrum It Recruitment Limited

Spectrum It Recruitment Limited

Birmingham, West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer AWS

Full-Time£39,000 - 70,500 per yearheuteUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £39,000 - 70,500 per year

Requirements:
  • We ideally want experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Cloud Operations, or NOC environment.
  • We expect exposure to Linux systems administration.
  • We expect exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • We expect exposure to Kubernetes and Docker.
  • We expect experience in production support and incident management.
  • We expect scripting ability in Python, Bash, or Go.
  • We expect familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
  • We expect networking fundamentals including DNS, TCP/IP, and load balancing.
  • We value a passion for automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, SRE principles such as SLIs and SLOs, or regulated environments would be beneficial but is not essential.
Responsibilities:
  • We monitor and maintain highly available production platforms running in AWS.
  • We respond to and manage production incidents across a 24/7 service.
  • We investigate complex technical issues and restore services quickly and effectively.
  • We develop automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve platform resilience.
  • We build and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across cloud environments.
  • We work alongside Software, Platform, Cloud, and Security Engineers to improve reliability and operational excellence.
  • We contribute to post-incident reviews and drive continuous service improvements.
  • We support containerised workloads using Kubernetes and Docker.
Technologies:
  • AI
  • AWS
  • Bash
  • Cloud
  • CloudWatch
  • Datadog
  • Docker
  • Grafana
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • Load Balancing
  • Prometheus
  • Python
  • Security
  • Splunk
  • TCP/IP
  • Terraform
  • DevOps

More:

We are recruiting Site Reliability Engineers to join a global leader in AI-powered customer experience and cloud technology. Following the award of a major government programme, we are expanding our engineering teams to build and support highly secure, cloud-native platforms that deliver sensitive communication services. This is a fully remote role in the UK with a 24/7 shift pattern on a 28-day rota including days and nights. We offer a competitive salary, bonus, and excellent benefits. You will join a collaborative, engineering-led SRE team where reliability, automation, and continuous improvement are central to the platform, and where you will help shape highly resilient cloud services.

last updated 30 week of 2026

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About Spectrum It Recruitment Limited

Spectrum It Recruitment Limited

Spectrum It Recruitment Limited

Birmingham

IT

Skills & Technologies

PythonGoAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformLinuxRESTAIDevOpsSREUX

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£54,750

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£60,000

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