Spectrum IT Recruitment

Spectrum IT Recruitment

Southampton, South East

Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Full-Time£60,000 - 60,000 per yeareergisterenUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:
  • We ideally want experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Cloud Operations or NOC environment.
  • We are looking for exposure to Linux systems administration.
  • We want experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • We are looking for experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
  • We want experience in production support and incident management.
  • We are looking for scripting experience in Python, Bash or Go.
  • We want familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk or CloudWatch.
  • We are looking for 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
  • Incident Management
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • Load Balancing
  • Prometheus
  • Python
  • Security
  • Splunk
  • TCP/IP
  • Terraform
  • DevOps

More:

We are a global leader in AI-powered customer experience and cloud technology, expanding our engineering teams following the award of a major government programme. We are building and supporting highly secure, cloud-native platforms that deliver sensitive communication services. This is a fully remote role in the UK on a 24/7 shift pattern across a 28-day rota including days and nights, with a competitive salary, bonus and excellent benefits. You will join an engineering-led organisation where reliability, automation and continuous improvement are central to the platform, and you will work as part of a collaborative SRE team focused on resilient cloud services.

last updated 31 week of 2026

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About Spectrum IT Recruitment

Spectrum IT Recruitment

Spectrum IT Recruitment

Southampton

IT

Skills & Technologies

PythonGoAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformLinuxRESTAIDevOpsSREUX

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