Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS / CDK / TypeScript) Remote First – Occasional travel to Leeds £40,000 - £50,000 + benefits No Sponsorship Available VIQU have partnered with a major UK technology-led organisation undergoing a significant transformation following a large-scale business merger. As part of a wider move away from contractor-heavy delivery, they are investing heavily in permanent engineering talent and building out a high-performing cloud and platform function. They are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help improve the reliability, scalability and automation of their AWS estate. This is a hands-on engineering role working across cloud infrastructure, observability, CI/CD and platform tooling, helping development teams deliver faster and more reliably. You’ll be joining a collaborative engineering environment with the opportunity to influence platform standards, improve operational resilience and support modern DevOps and SRE practices across the business. Key responsibilities: Build, maintain and improve scalable AWS infrastructure. Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK. Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. Improve monitoring, logging and observability across distributed systems. Support incident management, root cause analysis and platform reliability improvements. Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to improve operational performance and security. Contribute to cloud best practice, automation and platform engineering standards. Key requirements: Strong experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or Platform Engineering role. Strong AWS experience within production environments. Experience with AWS CDK (TypeScript preferred). Strong TypeScript experience. Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitLab CI. Containerisation experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS or ECS. Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics or OpenSearch. Experience with scripting or development using Python, TypeScript or Java. Understanding of cloud security and reliability best practices. AWS certifications are desirable but not essential. Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or contact Aaron Chiverton on . Know someone great? Refer them and receive up to £1,000 if successful (terms apply). For more exciting roles and opportunities, follow us on LinkedIn @VIQU IT Recruitment