SRE Site Reliability Engineer Observability & Performance

Salary: £137,500 - 150,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or Systems Engineering environments.
• Expertise in Grafana, observability, monitoring, alerting and telemetry implementation.
• Strong Java application troubleshooting skills, including JVM performance analysis, garbage collection and thread investigation.
• Experience supporting messaging technologies such as ActiveMQ, Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Linux administration (CentOS/RHEL), including patching, package management, security remediation and system troubleshooting.
• Experience building deployment automation and configuration management solutions.
• Strong Bash and Python scripting skills.
• Experience supporting production systems, resolving incidents and performing root cause analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and enhance observability across Java applications, middleware and Linux infrastructure using Grafana.
• Monitor, analyse performance, and troubleshoot reliability issues across a complex enterprise platform.
• Improve system visibility, platform stability and operational efficiency through monitoring, alerting and instrumentation.
• Develop cloud-ready observability, automation and operational capabilities as the platform evolves toward AWS.
• Support production systems, resolve incidents and carry out root cause analysis.

Technologies:

• AWS
• ActiveMQ
• Bash
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Grafana
• Support
• JVM
• Java
• Kafka
• Linux
• Python
• RHEL
• RabbitMQ
• Security

More:

We are offering an SRE contract focused on observability and performance for a complex enterprise platform, based in Bristol with a largely remote working arrangement. This is a 6-month initial contract paying up to £600 per day outside IR35. Our environment is currently hosted on traditional infrastructure, with an AWS migration planned, giving you the opportunity to help shape cloud-ready observability and automation capabilities as the platform evolves. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to let us know so we can support you.

last updated 34 week of 2026