Platform/SRE Engineer

Job Title:Platform/SRE Engineer
Location: Sheffield, 3 days a week
Salary/Rate: £514 Daily Rate
Start Date: 30/05/2026
Job Type: 6-month contract Inside IR35

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our tier one banking clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Platform/SRE Engineer to join their team for a six-month contract.

Role Description:

Own deployment, observability, reliability, cost control, and production operations for the AI helpdesk platform.

Key responsibilities

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and runtime environments for AI services.
• Deploy and operate model-serving, orchestration, and application workloads.
• Implement monitoring, tracing, alerting, logging, and operational dashboards.
• Manage scaling, release processes, rollback mechanisms, and production support.
• Optimize inference cost, latency, uptime, and system reliability.
• Create runbooks, incident response processes, and operational standards.

Required skills

• Strong experience in DevOps, SRE.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, release automation, secrets management, and production support.
• Understanding of LLM deployment patterns and API-based model integration.
• Experience with cloud, particularly AWS.
• Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow experience

Preferred

• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in production.
• Experience with GPU workloads, autoscaling, and cost optimization.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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