Global IT Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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What You'll DoThe Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for running the engineering capability behind a defined area of reliability across the organisation. The role works across multiple SRE disciplines including infrastructure, cloud, observability, automation, identity, security, and network operations, applying engineering thinking to reduce operational toil, improve resilience, and embed reliability and governance into delivery and operational workflows. The role drives engineering quality and consistency within its scope of responsibility, contributes to wider engineering standards, and helps shape how reliability is delivered across the organisation.

It builds reusable patterns, mentors engineers, and provides senior engineering input across a wider set of stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a senior practitioner who is comfortable operating across multiple domains, balances delivery with mentorship, and can articulate engineering trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Core responsibilities Run and continuously improve the reliability engineering systems within scope, including automation, pipelines, observability, and operational tooling. Design

and implement engineering solutions that eliminate operational toil at scale and embed reliability into delivery workflows. Help shape engineering standards, patterns, and reusable frameworks across the SRE practice. Lead the engineering response to complex incidents within scope, drive systemic remediation, and contribute to post-incident learning. Mentor and coach less senior engineers across reliability engineering, automation, observability, and SRE principles. Drive cross-team collaboration with engineering, platform, and operations functions to embed reliability and governance through engineering controls. Communicate

engineering status, risks, and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership forums. Contribute to monthly operational reviews with structured metrics on service health, ingestion or pipeline performance, automation coverage, and improvement progress. What You'll Bring5–8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related operational engineering disciplines. Strong hands-on experience across multiple SRE domains, including cloud, automation, observability, and CI/CD. Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automation and reliability solutions p knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS or Azure), including networking, identity, and observability primitives.

 
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines. Strong scripting experience (e.g. Python). Experience leading incident response and driving systemic improvement. Strong stakeholder engagement and technical communication skills. Deep hands-on experience with one or more enterprise observability platforms (e.g. Splunk, Datadog). Proven experience designing and operating telemetry pipelines, ingestion controls, and observability cost management. Proven experience designing signals (SLIs, SLOs, synthetic checks, alerts) and ops automation triggered from those signals. Experience

driving SLO/SLI practices across multiple teams. Deep hands-on experience…