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Site Reliability Engineer Lead - SRE Lead

Hybrid in Stratford, London

£500 - £550, Inside IR35

Initial 6-month

We're recruiting on behalf of a Global Services Provider who are looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to join their team where you will manage and guide the SRE team.

As a Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for:

Manage and guide the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team while promoting SRE principles throughout product groups.
Serve as the SRE subject matter expert and strategic lead within the delivery organization.
Oversee and advise on daily operations related to observability tools, including their upkeep and optimization.
Provide hands-on support to engineering teams for delivering observability initiatives, as needed.
Collaborate with product teams to develop standard practices, templates, and automation for monitoring and alerting systems.
Track and analyse metrics related to system performance and capacity planning.
Partner with Product Groups to gather requirements and define observability strategies that align with the Event Management framework.
Design and deliver dashboards that reflect business priorities and stakeholder expectations.
Lead the development and review of Observability Plans submitted by various projects.
Contribute to test planning and ensure the reliability of quality assurance results.

Proven skills and experience to help you succeed in this role:

Strong Experience with primary role of SRE Engineer
Strong experience in Devops Tools (Git Hub, Git Hub Actions, Workflow, CodeQL Jenkins, Nexus, CloudFormation/Terraform etc.)
Strong experience in monitoring tool (Datadog is preferred)
Strong Knowledge of AWS services EC2, ELB, ECS, S3, Config, CloudTrail, EFS, Lambda, VPC
Strong Knowledge and experience of python/shell scripting
AWS Certification (desirable)Further Information Available upon Application.

ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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