VodafoneThree - SRE III

Location:

Newbury + Hybrid

Salary:
Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits

Working hours:

Full time 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday

We believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role. We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week, for at least 8 days per month.

You should work with your line manager to understand what their expectations are for you, your specific role and your team.

We're here to build a network the UK can count on - one that connects people, places and potential. Because no matter where you live, what your background is, or how you get online - we think everyone deserves the same chance to stay connected, and with Vodafone Three, that future's being built - today.

We're creating more than the UK's best network. We're building a workplace where different perspectives are welcomed, voices are heard, and everyone feels safe to show up as themselves.

You'll join a team that genuinely cares - about each other, about our customers, and about the future we're building. From day one, you'll be welcomed, valued and encouraged to bring your whole self to work.

Join us and you'll be at the heart of change. That means building responsibly, investing sustainably and creating opportunities that last.

We're not just expanding connectivity; we're reimagining what a connected nation looks like. With £11bn invested in 5G and digital infrastructure, your work will directly power businesses, services, and communities across the country.

You'll work on real challenges, with real impact, across every corner of the country. Wherever you join us, whatever your role, you'll be helping to build a future that works better for everyone.

We move at pace, because what we're building matters - and we're learning as we go. We're proud of the progress we've made, but we're just getting started.

Join our IT teams, which is at the core of our digital future, analysing and operating all our internal and customer-facing systems, with the aim of delivering the best customer experience. None of it would be possible without our innovative teams, creating a connected future with technologies like Cloud, AI and big data.

• Lead the design and improvement of cloud platforms running on AWS, ensuring they remain scalable, secure, reliable, cost-efficient and easy for teams to consume.
• Drive a culture of 'build once, automate forever' by identifying repetitive operational work and replacing it with sustainable engineering solutions.
• Enable engineering teams to leverage advanced metrics and tracing using Datadog to reduce SLA.
• Partner with engineers, architects, security teams and product teams to build and operate platforms that enable rapid and safe delivery.
• Design, build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, and engineering tooling to improve developer experience and operational excellence using Azure Devops and Github Actions.
• Lead improvements in logging, monitoring, alerting and operational visibility, helping teams make data-driven decisions and resolve issues quickly.
• Participate in and improve the on-call experience, using engineering and automation to reduce operational burden and improve service resilience.
• Coach and mentor engineers across the organisation, sharing knowledge and helping others develop modern SRE practices.

• You are an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong cloud and software engineering skills, comfortable owning critical services running at scale in AWS and EKS.
• You have experience working with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS, designing and supporting containerised workloads that are secure, scalable and resilient.
• You have strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and developer platform tooling, including Azure Dev Ops and Git Hub Actions.
• You are comfortable writing and maintaining code in Python and Go and use software engineering principles to solve…