DevOps & Platform Engineering
Site Reliability Engineer Jobs & Careers
Looking for your next Site Reliability Engineer opportunity?
HOK Consulting connects Site Reliability Engineers with organisations improving the reliability, scalability and performance of business-critical applications and technology platforms across permanent, contract and interim opportunities.
Whether your experience covers Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Azure, monitoring, observability or infrastructure automation, explore current opportunities or upload your CV to join HOK’s technology talent network.
Current Site Reliability Engineer Jobs
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What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do?
Site Reliability Engineers, often known as SREs, apply software engineering and automation principles to the operation of applications, infrastructure and technology platforms.
The role focuses on keeping systems reliable, scalable and available while reducing repetitive operational work through automation, monitoring and improved engineering practices.
Site Reliability Engineers often work alongside Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Platform Engineers and cloud teams to improve service reliability, respond to incidents and ensure technology platforms can support changing levels of demand.
Site Reliability Engineer Skills & Experience
The exact technical requirements vary between organisations, but Site Reliability Engineer roles commonly involve experience across areas such as:
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Monitoring and Observability
- Helm
- Argo CD
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- Incident Management
- Automation
Site Reliability Engineers may specialise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability or application reliability, while others work across the complete operational lifecycle of complex technology platforms.
Strong troubleshooting, automation and systems engineering skills are particularly important when maintaining critical services and improving reliability at scale.
Typical Site Reliability Engineer Responsibilities
- Improving the reliability and availability of production systems
- Building monitoring, alerting and observability solutions
- Managing Kubernetes and cloud-based platforms
- Automating infrastructure and operational processes
- Investigating production incidents and service failures
- Supporting incident response and root cause analysis
- Defining and monitoring service reliability objectives
- Improving system scalability, resilience and performance
- Reducing repetitive operational work through automation
- Supporting CI/CD and reliable software deployment
- Working with Software Engineers to improve application reliability
- Contributing to platform architecture and operational engineering standards
Responsibilities vary depending on the organisation, technology environment and whether the role is focused on application reliability, cloud platforms, infrastructure or wider production engineering.
Site Reliability Engineer Salary Expectations
Site Reliability Engineer salaries vary according to experience, location, cloud platform, technical specialism, sector and the complexity of the systems being supported.
Permanent Site Reliability Engineer
Around £80,000 per year
UK median advertised salary
Contract Site Reliability Engineer
Around £525 per day
UK median contract rate
Senior Site Reliability Engineers and professionals with specialist Kubernetes, cloud architecture, high-scale systems, financial services or complex production engineering experience may command higher salaries or contract rates.
Salary information is provided as a general UK market guide and can vary significantly between individual roles.
Site Reliability Engineer Career Progression
Site Reliability Engineering can lead into senior reliability engineering, platform architecture and wider technical leadership positions.
Typical Site Reliability Engineer Career Path
Alternative Career Paths
Site Reliability Engineers may also progress into roles such as:
- Platform Engineer
- Platform Architect
- DevOps Lead
- DevSecOps Engineer
- Cloud Automation Engineer
- Head of DevOps
The right progression depends on whether you want to deepen your reliability engineering expertise, move towards platform architecture or take responsibility for wider DevOps, platform and operational engineering teams.
Your Next Move
Looking for Your Next Site Reliability Engineer Opportunity?
If you’re considering your next permanent position, contract assignment or interim opportunity, send HOK Consulting your CV.
Tell us about the production systems you’ve supported, the cloud and observability technologies you work with and the type of opportunity you’re looking for.
Specialist Recruitment
DevOps & Platform Engineering Recruitment
Site Reliability Engineering forms part of HOK Consulting’s wider DevOps & Platform Engineering recruitment expertise, connecting organisations with specialists across automation, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability, continuous delivery and technical leadership.
Hiring?
Recruiting Site Reliability Engineers?
HOK Consulting supports organisations looking for experienced Site Reliability Engineers across permanent, contract and interim requirements.
Whether you’re improving service reliability, strengthening observability, scaling cloud platforms or reducing operational overhead through automation, speak to HOK about your requirements.