Principal SRE; AWS, Azure, Terraforms, Kubernetes

Position Overview

Fourth is actively seeking an experienced and pragmatic Principal SRE to join our worldwide team. We are progressing rapidly in developing automated, highly reliable, and zero‑downtime infrastructure pipelines that are becoming the standard across our entire business – but now we want to accelerate this adoption and our move to public cloud (Azure).

• Working with Architecture, Product Owners and development teams to elicit and define the practical needs and requirements for products being migrated to cloud.
• Design and implement scalable, highly available, and resilient infrastructure solutions to agreed standards.
• Innovate and enhance tooling for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and automation.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure and processes, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Actively participate in incident management, driving rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Identify and implement strategies to future‑proof infrastructure for growth and increased demand.
• Use AI tools as a force multiplier and encourage others to do the same as appropriate.
• Assist in the career development of colleagues, acting as a role model and encouraging best practice.

• Demonstrable experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, or a similar role, with experience mentoring others.
• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and managing large‑scale, highly available, and scalable infrastructure.
• Relevant and recent experience with Terraform, Configuration Management (Chef ideally, but will consider Ansible or Puppet), Kubernetes (cloud‑based), Docker (Kubernetes or AWS ECS Fargate).
• Extensive cloud experience (ideally Azure and AWS).
• Programming, scripting skills and OOP principles.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities.
• Experience working in Agile or Kanban.
• A natural and positive team player.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

• 25 basic holidays with the option to grow up to 30 with service + birthday off + bank holidays.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working environments.
• Wellness activities and discounts on gym subscriptions.
• Company provided laptop and equipment.
• Healthcare expense claim tools.
• Support for certifications and professional development.
• Annual meet‑ups.
• Enhanced parenting scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan provided.
• Pension and life insurance options.
• On‑demand pay tools to allow salary access before the end of the month.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without discrimination because of sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, age, national origin, military status, religion, or disability or any other legally protected status.

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