Junior Site Reliability Engineer

Junior Site Reliability Engineer

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Location: London (Hybrid – 2-8 days per month in the office)

Salary: £45,000-50,000 per annum

A growing technology-driven organisation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join its platform and infrastructure team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with 2-3 years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience who enjoys solving technical problems, improving developer experience, and building scalable automation solutions.

The successful candidate will play a key role in platform automation and CI/CD improvement, working closely with engineering teams to support production systems, streamline deployments, and enhance observability across the estate. This role offers genuine ownership, strong technical exposure, and a clear progression path into a mid-level SRE position within 18 months.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2-3 years’ experience within DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong Terraform experience, including designing reusable modules
• Ability to write clean, maintainable production-quality code in Python or Bash
• Solid networking knowledge including DNS, load balancing, and CDN concepts
• Experience with monitoring/observability platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
• Comfortable working in incident management and on-call environments
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot

Desirable Experience

• Go programming experience
• Ansible or other configuration management tooling xwzovoh
• Experience working with multiple CDN providers including CloudFront, Fastly, or Cloudflare

What’s on Offer

• Hybrid working model
• Strong career progression opportunities
• Learning and development budget
• Opportunity to work closely with senior technical leadership
• High level of ownership across automation and platform engineering initiatives

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys combining hands-on technical problem solving with platform improvement and automation work in a collaborative engineering environment.