Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

As a market leader with a vast national presence, the group is focused on modernising its platforms, improving data-driven decision-making, and streamlining operations through automation and innovative tools. With the backing of Skipton Building Society, Connells offers a stable and resource-rich environment for tech professionals to work on impactful projects across customer platforms, internal systems, and exploring AI-driven solutions - making it an exciting space for anyone looking to shape the future of property technology in the UK.

The Lead Site Reliability Engineer owns the operational reliability of the Connells Microsoft Azure public cloud platform. You are data-informed, customer-first and know from your own engineering experience that engineering quality drives service reliability. Your engineering background helps you understand your customers, your platform and how automation is the only way to scale quality.

You will be a champion of site reliability practices within and without your team. You form part of a ‘you build it-you run it’ platform with an agile mindset.

We want to hear from you if:

You are a Site reliability Engineer in a past life, or an SRE ready to step up and lead.

You have recent Microsoft Azure experience, but we also recognise the transferability of cloud engineering and operations fundamentals from Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.

You have a curious and humble mindset that fosters a blameless environment, and you have a can-do attitude. You are someone who knows how to avoid themselves and their team becoming a bottleneck through automation and self-service.

You understand working in a multi-disciplinary matrix structure where swarming around the work is more important than functional alignment.

We are looking for someone who has:

Strong .NET framework knowledge (C#, Core etc..)

Expertise in Windows Server administration

Database administration (SQL Server primarily)

Ability to instrument and consume monitoring and observability tools (Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana)

Experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Bash for automation tasks

Previous experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools

Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Knowledge of security best practices for cloud environments

Experience optimising cloud spend and resource efficiency

Incident management and response procedures

Service level objective (SLO) definition and tracking

Capacity planning and performance optimisation

Risk assessment and mitigation strategies

Documentation practices and knowledge management

Experience implementing reliability practices in production environments

Strong communication skills and good stakeholder management

Problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking

Ability to make data-driven decisions

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

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