650 - 750 per day Inside IR35 via umbrellaManchester6-12 month contractRole overviewThe Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) owns the reliability, observability and operational health of one or more areas of the cloud infrastructure, and leads the SREs working in that area. They use service level objectives (SLOs) to decide which operational improvements matter most, and they build the engineering capability of the team around them. ResponsibilitiesEngineering and operationsManages the development and/or operation of significant aspects of the data management system, with guidance from senior colleagues.Designs, builds and maintains infrastructure as code, automation and tooling that remove manual toil.Improves release safety through CI/CD pipelines, progressive delivery and rollback practices.Plans capacity and performance, and carries out resilience, failover and load testing.Takes part in the on-call rota and acts as an escalation point for the area.Works with development, security and product teams to embed reliability in design and delivery.Experience and behavioursEssentialSubstantial experience in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering running production services at scale.Proven record of improving reliability against defined SLOs.Experience supervising, coaching or mentoring engineers.Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.Calm, structured problem solving under pressure during incidents.DesirableGCP certification, ..... full job details .....