Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes / Multi-Cloud) UK Based

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join an established and growing SRE team supporting Kubernetes-based platforms running across Azure and AWS

This role focuses on maintaining reliable, scalable, and observable systems, working closely with engineering teams to ensure services run smoothly in production.

You will contribute to the operation of managed Kubernetes platforms (AKS/EKS), supporting best practices in monitoring, automation, and incident response, while continuing to develop your expertise in cloud-native technologies.

About Synalogik

Synalogik develops technology that enables organisations to work effectively with complex and disparate data sources. Through automated workflows, our platform collects, processes, and analyses data from a wide range of trusted datasets, allowing users to handle large volumes of information quickly and reliably.

Our flagship product, Scout®, helps people make better decisions by bringing together useful information from different sources, supported by systems that are built to be reliable and able to scale.

Scout® has become the compliance and investigation platform to a third of the UK gambling market, UK Government Agencies, Insurance, legal and banking companies.

Despite our long client list, this is just the beginning for Synalogik. There are a raft of new innovations in the works, and the chance to be part of a rapidly expanding team, work with our data science and industry experts, ensure that your ideas get supported, and then get the satisfaction of seeing them in products used in Tier 1 businesses.

Key Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering

Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and post-incident reviews
Help reduce operational toil through automation and process improvements
Contribute to improving system availability, performance, and scalability
Maintain and improve runbooks and operational documentation
Participate in 24/7 On-Call Rota

Kubernetes & Container Platforms

Support the deployment and operation of AKS and EKS clusters
Assist with cluster upgrades, scaling, and maintenance
Work with autoscaling tools (Cluster Autoscaler, KEDA, Karpenter)
Help improve workload reliability and performance

Cloud Infrastructure (Azure & AWS)

Contribute to infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
Support networking, identity, compute, and storage services
Assist with maintaining secure and scalable environments

Observability & Monitoring

Work with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch
Build dashboards, alerts, and logging/tracing pipelines
Support monitoring aligned to SLIs/SLOs

Security & Compliance

Implement RBAC/IAM, secrets management, and network security controls
Support compliance and security requirements

CI/CD & Automation

Support CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/ Argo)
Contribute to GitOps workflows (ArgoCD / Flux)
Assist in automating deployments and operations

Collaboration

Work closely with software engineers and product owners
Contribute to team discussions, reviews, and planning

Essential Skills & Experience

Kubernetes

Hands-on Kubernetes experience (AKS, EKS, or similar)
Understanding of cluster architecture, networking, and scaling

Cloud

Experience with Azure and/or AWS
Familiarity with networking, IAM, and core services

Infrastructure as Code

Experience with Terraform

Observability

Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, loki)

Other Technical Skills

Helm Charts / Kustomize creation and maintenance
Linux fundamentals
Containers (Docker)

Desirable Skills

Exposure to both Azure and AWS
GitOps tools (ArgoCD / Flux)
Autoscaling tools (KEDA, Karpenter)
Service mesh exposure

Personal Attributes

Problem-solving mindset
Willingness to learn
Good communication skills
Proactive and dependable

Qualifications

Relevant certifications (desirable)
2–4 years of experience in cloud/SRE/platform roles

Position Details

Location – Hybrd (Hereford based) or Remote

Employment Type – Full Time

Salary – £45,000 – £55,000

Residency – You must have been Resident in the UK for 5 years to meet security Clearance for this role

Benefits

Work-life balance is important; you’ll get 24 days annual leave, increasing 1 day every year up to 30 days.
You will have the flexibility to work from home and can work around core hours with flexible working
Monthly one-on-ones.
A competitive Pension scheme into which the company will contribute 5% of qualified earnings
Private medical and dental Healthcare Insurance
Life Insurance
Use of the latest IT technology including top of the range MacBook Pro or Air

Synalogik is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, redundancy, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Synalogik makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

You must be willing to undergo SC Clearance. To Obtain Clearance you must along with other checks have been resident in the UK for 5 years