Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (CDN/Cloud/Kubernetes) - paying up to £600 Inside IR35 - Hybrid (London) - 6 month contract

We're hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-impact engineering team responsible for keeping large-scale, customer-facing platforms reliable, scalable and fast. This is a hands-on role working across CDN/edge, cloud infrastructure and modern SRE practices.

You'll play a key role in ensuring performance and reliability across a dual-CDN environment, while helping to evolve automation, observability and platform engineering capabilities.

What you'll be doing:

• Operating and optimising CDN platforms across a dual-vendor setup (Fastly & Akamai)
• Working with edge logic (routing, caching, headers, traffic management)
• Building and managing infrastructure using Terraform and automation tooling
• Running and improving Kubernetes platforms in production
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Driving automation to reduce operational toil and improve efficiency
• Supporting distributed data and caching platforms (Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, etc.)
• Enhancing observability using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog and CloudWatch

What we're looking for:

• Strong experience in SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering roles
• Solid knowledge of cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Exposure to CDN/edge platforms (Fastly, Akamai or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and automation
• Strong Scripting skills (Bash, Python or similar)
• Experience working with distributed systems or data platforms (Kafka, Redis, etc.)

Why apply?

• Work on high-scale systems used by millions of users
• Modern tech stack across cloud, Kubernetes and edge platforms
• Strong engineering culture with a focus on automation and best practice
• Opportunity to shape platform reliability and tooling in a growing team