Site Reliability Engineer (GCP) - 12 Month Contract - Hybrid in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer (GCP) - 12 Month Contract - Hybrid in Manchester

Role Overview
We are looking for Site Reliability Engineers to join an engineering team on a 12-month hybrid contract (2 days per week on-site), with multiple positions available. The role is responsible for IT operations and infrastructure, ensuring software systems remain scalable, reliable, and efficient through automation, monitoring, and strong engineering practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and manage service-level indicators and objectives (SLIs/SLOs), with meaningful alerts and dashboards
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, delivering permanent corrective actions
• Build automation to reduce manual operational effort, including operational runbooks, recovery procedures, and routine support activities
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, and telemetry to provide clear service visibility
• Improve system availability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance, supporting reliable deployment, rollback, and release practices
• Collaborate with application, cloud, platform, security, and operations teams to improve production readiness and guide teams in adopting consistent reliability practice

Top 5 Skills

• Strong coding expertise in Python, Java, or Bash
• Hands-on cloud computing experience, ideally with GCP
• Strong Linux/Unix systems knowledge
• Solid understanding of networking protocols
• Containerisation experience with Docker and Kubernetes - desirable: strong analytical and troubleshooting ability, collaborative stakeholder relationships across engineering, operations, security, and architecture

Contract Details:

• Rate: £400 - £500 per day
• Location: Hybrid (2x a week) in Manchester
• Contract Length: 12-Month Initial Contract