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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Title: Senior SRE - Site Reliability Engineering for Observability

Location: London (Mostly Remote | 1 Day/Week in Office)
Pay Rate: £50 - £62 per hour (Inside IR35)
Contract Duration: Initial 12 Months
Working Hours: 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-impact Observability team within a leading global tech environment. This is a hands-on, senior-level role focused on building and scaling large-scale monitoring and logging platforms that ensure service reliability, performance, and visibility.

If you're passionate about distributed systems, high-throughput data pipelines, and enabling engineering teams with top-tier observability tooling-this is the role for you.

What You'll Be Doing

Designing and operating observability platforms (logging, monitoring, alerting) at scale.
Managing large, high-performance ElasticSearch clusters and Prometheus deployments.
Building scalable data pipelines using Kafka to process millions of events per second.
Developing tools, APIs, and dashboards to enable self-service observability for engineering teams.
Automating infrastructure using Terraform and configuration with Ansible.
Participating in on-call rotations to ensure platform uptime and responsiveness.

What We're Looking For

5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps roles, managing large-scale systems
Strong technical knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) environments
Proven experience with observability tools such as:
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite
Kafka, Thanos, Cortex
Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform, Ansible)
Scripting/programming skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Bash, or Scala
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in complex distributed systems
A proactive, collaborative approach with a customer-focused mindsetThis is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it khushboo. pandey @ randstad. Co. uk

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