Site Reliability Engineer | Contract Role

Up to £600 per day (Inside IR35)

Hybrid London

6 month contract (likely extension)

Ready to make an impact at scale? Join a leading global media and entertainment organisation delivering world class digital experiences to millions of users across multiple countries ✨ This is your chance to work on high traffic, customer facing platforms where reliability, performance, and innovation truly matter.

What you will be doing

As a mid to senior SRE, you will play a hands on role in keeping platforms fast, scalable, and rock solid You will manage and optimise CDN platforms across a dual vendor setup (Fastly and Akamai) , ensure consistency between CDN configurations and edge logic, and work with VCL to implement routing, caching, and request handling logic. You will build and manage infrastructure using Terraform and automation tools ⚙️, run and scale Kubernetes platforms in production , and develop and enhance CI CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins. You will also reduce manual effort through smart automation , support and improve data and caching systems like Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra, enhance observability using Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch , and take part in incident response while continuously improving platform reliability

What you will bring

Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins, along with experience working in cloud environments ideally AWS ☁️. You will have solid Kubernetes experience in production, exposure to CDN and edge platforms such as Fastly or Akamai, and strong scripting skills including Bash plus another language . Experience with messaging or database platforms like Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra is important, alongside a deep understanding of scalable and resilient system design. You should also have sharp troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, pipelines, and applications, and a mindset focused on continuous improvement and learning

Why apply?

Work on platforms used by millions of customers daily, be part of a forward thinking, inclusive, and high performing engineering team, gain exposure to cutting edge technologies and large scale systems, and benefit from strong potential for contract extension.

If you are passionate about reliability, love solving complex problems, and want to work at serious scale, this is for you.

Apply now and let’s chat!