Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Remote, £66,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Build Reliability at Scale. Lead High-Performing Engineers. Power Millions of Deliveries.
Want to shape the reliability, performance and scalability of systems that support one of the UK's largest parcel delivery networks?
At Evri, Site Reliability Engineering is a critical part of how we build and operate technology. We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Team Lead) to lead and develop a team of six engineers while remaining hands-on with modern cloud technologies.
This is a leadership role that requires strong technical credibility, particularly across AWS, platform reliability, automation and cloud-native engineering. You'll be responsible for setting standards, driving operational excellence, and helping your team deliver resilient, scalable services that support business-critical platforms.
This is a high-impact role where you'll influence engineering standards, improve reliability practices, and help shape the future of SRE across the organisation.
What You'll Be Doing

Lead, mentor and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers
Provide technical leadership and direction across cloud, platform and operational engineering initiatives
Improve reliability, scalability and operational efficiency across our platforms and services
Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort and improve software delivery
Define and measure SLIs, SLOs and key service performance metrics
Build monitoring, observability and alerting solutions that provide meaningful operational insight
Support engineering teams in resolving complex availability, performance and scalability challenges
Enable reliable deployments and rapid issue detection, recovery and rollback processes
Champion security, resilience and engineering best practices across services and platforms
Manage and enhance shared tooling including CI/CD and automation platforms
Drive continuous improvement, cost optimisation and platform stability initiatives

What You'll Bring

Experience leading, mentoring or managing engineers within an SRE, DevOps, Cloud or Platform Engineering environment
Strong AWS cloud knowledge and experience supporting cloud-native platforms at scale
Hands-on experience developing and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK using TypeScript
Strong technical expertise across infrastructure, automation, reliability and operational engineering
Linux and/or Windows administration experience
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation and Ansible
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling including Jenkins, GitLab, Concourse CI or similar
Experience working with Docker and container technologies
Scripting experience using Bash, Python, Go or similar technologies
Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills within production environments
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across technical teams

Why Evri?
At Evri, reliability matters.
You'll be joining a team helping to shape how modern engineering operates across a large-scale, cloud-first environment. Your work will directly influence how our teams build, deploy and support technology that serves millions of customers every year.
As well as leading a talented team, you'll have the opportunity to drive change, influence strategy, and help create engineering environments where reliability, automation and innovation go hand in hand.
We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels included, supported and empowered to grow.
Let's Deliver It Together
We are Evri. Where everyone is welcome. Where great engineering thrives.