
Spectrum It Recruitment Limited
Site Reliability Engineer AWS
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.
- 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.
- 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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Spectrum It Recruitment Limited
Birmingham
IT
Skills & Technologies
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£54,750
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 9% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks