Public Cloud – Google SRE Engineer

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Salary: £72,702 – £78,810

Location(s): Manchester, Bristol, Leeds

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: At least two days per week at one of the listed offices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline‑based products and services, responding to change, implementing enhancements, and improving reliability and customer experience.
  • Implement further automation and reduce toil by utilizing existing cloud tooling or implementing new technologies.
  • Improve operational excellence, including monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation, and reliability.
  • Be accountable for day‑to‑day health of both production and non‑production environments and respond to any incidents as required.
  • Observe, investigate, and fix service issues with an engineering attitude—resolving via code changes and implementing improvements to prevent repeat issues.
  • Engage in Agile team ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.
  • Provide technical expertise to establish risk tolerance of products and services.
  • Communicate incident status updates clearly and frequently to other teams, customers, and stakeholders.
  • Apply SRE practices and introduce chaos engineering where appropriate to strengthen resilience and validate reliability.

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Strong DevOps understanding, including experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins, Harness, Azure DevOps).
  • Experience with a broad set of public‑cloud technologies and services, particularly Google Cloud Platform Analytics, AI, Databases & Serverless products.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell, or BASH.
  • Solid understanding of cloud security, network fundamentals, IAM, and platform engineering.
  • Experience with monitoring tools and techniques to ensure system reliability and performance.
  • Logical thinking and strong problem‑solving skills.

Desirable Skills

  • Practical experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation.
  • Certifications in GCP or another cloud platform (e.g., Azure).
  • Experience in system administration, software engineering, or related technology/engineering fields with ability to adapt quickly to new cloud environments.
  • Technology‑agnostic mindset and willingness to pursue the best solutions.
  • Continuous curiosity to learn and develop with industry‑best‑practice methods and tooling in the cloud.

Benefits

  • Performance share bonus.
  • Flexible cash pot to spend on benefits.
  • Generous pension contribution and private health cover.
  • Up to 30 days leave, depending on grade and service, with the ability to purchase additional days.
  • Various colleague share schemes.

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Job Description:

Salary: £72,702 – £78,810

Location(s): Manchester, Bristol, Leeds

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: At least two days per week at one of the listed offices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline‑based products and services, responding to change, implementing enhancements, and improving reliability and customer experience.
  • Implement further automation and reduce toil by utilizing existing cloud tooling or implementing new technologies.
  • Improve operational excellence, including monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation, and reliability.
  • Be accountable for day‑to‑day health of both production and non‑production environments and respond to any incidents as required.
  • Observe, investigate, and fix service issues with an engineering attitude—resolving via code changes and implementing improvements to prevent repeat issues.
  • Engage in Agile team ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.
  • Provide technical expertise to establish risk tolerance of products and services.
  • Communicate incident status updates clearly and frequently to other teams, customers, and stakeholders.
  • Apply SRE practices and introduce chaos engineering where appropriate to strengthen resilience and validate reliability.

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Strong DevOps understanding, including experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins, Harness, Azure DevOps).
  • Experience with a broad set of public‑cloud technologies and services, particularly Google Cloud Platform Analytics, AI, Databases & Serverless products.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell, or BASH.
  • Solid understanding of cloud security, network fundamentals, IAM, and platform engineering.
  • Experience with monitoring tools and techniques to ensure system reliability and performance.
  • Logical thinking and strong problem‑solving skills.

Desirable Skills

  • Practical experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation.
  • Certifications in GCP or another cloud platform (e.g., Azure).
  • Experience in system administration, software engineering, or related technology/engineering fields with ability to adapt quickly to new cloud environments.
  • Technology‑agnostic mindset and willingness to pursue the best solutions.
  • Continuous curiosity to learn and develop with industry‑best‑practice methods and tooling in the cloud.

Benefits

  • Performance share bonus.
  • Flexible cash pot to spend on benefits.
  • Generous pension contribution and private health cover.
  • Up to 30 days leave, depending on grade and service, with the ability to purchase additional days.
  • Various colleague share schemes.

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Posted: May 20th, 2026