Site Reliability Engineer (GCP) - 12 Month Contract - Hybrid in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer (GCP) - 12 Month Contract - Hybrid in Manchester Role Overview We are looking for Site Reliability Engineers to join an engineering team on a 12-month hybrid contract (2 days per week on-site), with multiple positions available. The role is responsible for IT operations and infrastructure, ensuring software systems remain scalable, reliable, and efficient through automation, monitoring, and strong engineering practice. Key Responsibilities Define and manage service-level indicators and objectives (SLIs/SLOs), with meaningful alerts and dashboards Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, delivering permanent corrective actions Build automation to reduce manual operational effort, including operational runbooks, recovery procedures, and routine support activities Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, and telemetry to provide clear service visibility Improve system availability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance, supporting reliable deployment, rollback, and release practices Collaborate with application, cloud, platform, security, and operations teams to improve production readiness and guide teams in adopting consistent reliability practice Top 5 Skills Strong coding expertise in Python, Java, or Bash Hands-on cloud computing experience, ideally with GCP Strong Linux/Unix systems knowledge Solid understanding of networking protocols Containerisation experience with Docker and Kubernetes - desirable: strong ..... full job details .....