Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Edinburgh (or Remote UK), Scotland, United Kingdom

Salary: Not disclosed

About us

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organizations to achieve extraordinary results.

Our enterprise platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth,powering confident decisions,and ensuring satisfied clients andteams—we're helping our customers build strong organizations and careers for the long term.

Why our customers love Dayshape:

• We help professional firms optimize margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.
• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.
• We empower firms to be where top talent wants to work and where top clients want to buy from..

Recognized as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us.

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.

About the role

As we grow and more customers are adopting our platform, we are scaling up to meet the demand. This means more automation of our infrastructure and deployments as well as accurate health monitoring through all our clients, both new and old.

The person in this role will join the Site Reliability Engineering team (SRE). The main role of the SRE team is to facilitate the scalability of Dayshape and allow us to meet the demands of an increasing client base.

What you’ll do

• Lead initiatives to enhance Dayshape’s ability to scale our cloud platform
• Maintain and improve our cloud estate in Azure
• Improve SRE and other teams’ working lives through automation of manual tasks
• Lead in making the deployment of Dayshape more scalable
• Increase our knowledge sharing of SRE across the organisation
• Improve the observability of Dayshape through reporting and tool creation
• Drive improvements to our Cost of Giving Service (COGS)
• Diagnose and triage escalated issues
• Support, mentor, and coach other members of the team
• Work will include the following technologies:
• Az Devops
• Terraform
• Python
• Powershell scripting

About you

• Have significant experience with “Infrastructure as Code”. We are looking for someone who has a genuine enthusiasm for IaC and experience of
• Delivered IaC frameworks that can be contributed to by other engineering teams.
• An understanding of the patterns and practices required to deliver reliable, high-quality results, such as unit and integration testing, CI/CD etc.
• Writing and debugging Python code
• One or more IaC toolset proficiency e.g. Pulumi or Terraform.
• Designed and built infrastructure using Azure which takes into consideration: observability, alerting, uptime SLA's and SLO's and Azure Dev Ops pipelines.
• Be able to collaborate well with both engineering teams and colleagues in customer-facing teams.
• Be an excellent communicator both in written and verbal forms.
• Have an enthusiasm for learning new technologies and how they can be best incorporated into our infrastructure.
• Able to consider the broader impact of your design and coding decisions and those of others
• Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving tricky problems and tackling risks.
• Keep a cool head in pressure situations, maintaining a problem-solving mindset, but also knowing when to escalate
• Keen to help guide more junior members of the team

What you’ll get

• Starting salary between £50,000 and £58,493, depending on experience
• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional…