Senior Site Engineer
Manchester (Hybrid/Flexible Working)
Full-Time | Up to £80,000 DOE + Excellent Benefits
A high growth tech business is seeking a Senior Site Reliability & Platform Engineer to help scale its infrastructure and improve developer experience across the organisation.
This is a key role within a modern, cloud-native environment where you’ll combine SRE principles (reliability, observability, incident response) with cutting-edge platform engineering (GitOps, IaC, DevSecOps). You'll play a critical part in enabling product teams to ship faster, more securely, and cost-effectively — while owning the health and evolution of the platform itself.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and operate scalable, secure infrastructure in Azure (AKS, Functions, SQL, Cosmos DB, etc.)
- Apply SRE best practices: SLOs, alerting, observability, and incident management
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, v1.7+) and GitOps workflows
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) with security scanning, automation, and progressive delivery
- Develop reusable tooling, modules, and self-service capabilities for development teams
- Improve monitoring across systems using tools like Datadog, Grafana, ELK, and synthetic checks
- Participate in the on-call rota and lead incident response and postmortems
- Promote FinOps best practices and cost optimisation strategies
- Contribute to internal platform governance, documentation, and coaching
Experience required - Non negotiables:
- Extensive experience with Azure services, including AKS, Azure Functions, SQL Database, and Cosmos DB
- Proficient in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (v1.7+)
- Skilled in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automation scripting (PowerShell, Bash)
- Strong grasp of networking principles, including TCP/IP, load balancing, DNS, and routing
- Well-versed in DevSecOps methodologies, including security scanning, IAM, and RBAC implementation
- Hands on experience with FinOps practices such as resource tagging, budgeting, and cost optimization
- Proficient in managing both Windows and Linux operating systems
- Confident in supporting production environments, participating in on-call rotations, and collaborating across teams
What You’ll Get:
- Up to £80,000 per annum
- Hybrid / flexible working
- 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
- Personal development budget
- 35 hour working week
If you're passionate about building scalable, reliable infrastructure and enjoy enabling others through smart platform design — this could be the role for you.