Site Reliability Engineer – SRE Consultant Full Time

City, London
Akkodis

Site Reliability Engineer – SRE Consultant

Akkodis are currently working in partnership with a leading service provider to recruit an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with experience in ensuring reliability, scalability and efficiency of client platforms.

Please note this is a fully remote role with travel to client sites required on occasion and you must be eligible to gain security clearance (do not need to hold currently).

The Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will lead site reliability engineering initiatives with a strong emphasis on observability, ensuring high performance and reliability of applications & infrastructure. Provide strategic insights to shape the overall SRE strategy while collaborating on the design and implementation of scalable and reliable solutions. Establish effective monitoring, alerting and incident response strategies to maintain system availability and promote continuous improvement by collaborating with team members to deliver observability best practices and SRE methodologies.

The Responsibilities

• Define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to measure and maintain system and application performance, ensuring services meet agreed reliability targets.
• Instrument applications to collect key metrics, logs, and traces that enable proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Create dashboards and configure alerts to provide Real Time visibility into system health, enabling teams to quickly detect and resolve issues.
• Assess and enhance Kubernetes capabilities, improving DevOps efficiency through innovation, agility and cost optimisation.
• Take a holistic approach to modernising the developer experience, focusing on organisational culture, DevOps practices, processes, automation and tooling.
• Architect scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure to ensure the seamless deployment and optimisation of containerised applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement automation strategies that reduce operational complexity and drive continuous improvement.

The Requirements

• Strong understanding of the SRE mindset and principles, including the creation and management of Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets ensuring reliability and performance.
• Experience in implementing observability, instrumenting applications to provide insights into system performance. Hands-on experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry for monitoring, tracing, and Real Time alerting is highly sought after.
• An understanding of microservices and container orchestration with the ability to optimise containerised applications for reliability and scalability.
• Experience enabling continuous delivery pipelines, with a focus on ensuring system reliability, quality, and performance through automated deployment, scaling, and observability tools.
• Understanding of build and deployment of pipelines and experience in collaborating with developers to improve observability and monitoring practices.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Comfortability interacting and engaging with clients, although a consulting background is not a prerequisite.
• An enthusiasm and excitement at the prospect of working with a wide range of technology stacks and cloud providers across the wide range of clients and industries we support.

If you are looking for an exciting new challenge to join a leading consultancy please apply now.

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