SRE Engineer

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer/SRE
Location: Birmingham - 2 days per week in the office
Salary/Rate: £450 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 12/10/2026
Job Type: Contract - 3/6 months initially

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled SRE to join their team for a six-month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Implement SLOs, SLIs, error budgets and service health measures for critical services.
• Build and maintain observability patterns covering monitoring, logging, tracing, alert quality and dashboards.
• Support production readiness reviews, resilience reviews, capacity planning and operational acceptance.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual toil across supported services.
• Contribute to incident response, post-incident reviews and reliability improvement actions.
• Partner with platform and software engineers to embed reliability patterns into delivery pipelines.
• Improve alerting quality by reducing noise, tuning thresholds and linking alerts to actionable runbooks.
• Support AIOps and anomaly detection adoption where it improves service restoration and prediction.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Experience in operations, software, cloud, platform or reliability engineering.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, tracing, incident response, automation and capacity management.
• Ability to work across technical and service management teams.
• Strong analytical approach to incident trends, service performance and root cause prevention.
• Scripting or automation capability and willingness to improve operability through engineering.
• Practical understanding of ITIL4 service operations and SRE practices.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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