A fantastic opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Engineer to support highly available, scalable production systems within a fast-growing technology environment, working across cloud platforms, DevOps, networking and operational resilience.
If youve also worked in the following roles, wed also like to hear from you: DevOps Engineer, Operations Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Production Engineer
SALARY: up to £70,000 per annum (depending on experience) + Benefits
LOCATION: Remote and Hybrid Working Options Available. You can either work remotely of if you prefer Hybrid working from home and the office in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, North West England
JOB TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent
JOB OVERVIEW
We have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Engineer to join a growing technology team focused on delivering reliable, scalable and resilient platforms and services.
As a Site Reliability Engineer/ Systems Engineer you will act as the vital link between operations, end users and backend development teams, ensuring system availability, performance optimisation and effective incident management across live environments.
This Site Reliability Engineer/ Systems Engineer role offers the chance to work with modern cloud technologies, containerisation, observability tools and automation practices, while influencing long-term reliability improvements across business-critical systems.
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DUTIES
Your duties as the Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Engineer include:
Incident Triage and Ownership: Acting as first-line technical escalation for live production issues through to resolution or handover
System Monitoring and Availability: Maintaining high availability, performance and scalability of production platforms and services
Observability Implementation: Managing logging, monitoring, alerting and metrics to proactively identify and resolve issues
Reliability Improvements: Collaborating with development teams to translate operational insights into long-term platform resilience
Automation and Resilience: Supporting automation, incident response and continuous improvement practices
New Service Support: Ensuring new products and features are operable, reliable and scalable from day one
Cross-Team Collaboration: Working with network engineering, operations and support teams to diagnose service issues
Documentation and Reporting: Creating and maintaining runbooks, escalation guides and incident reports
Incident Prioritisation: Balancing customer impact with long-term system health and stability
Security and Compliance: Supporting compliance with security, availability and regulatory frameworks
CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
ESSENTIAL
Previous experience in a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Systems Engineer or Operations Engineer role
Experience supporting production services at scale within a DevOps or SRE environment
Strong working knowledge of ISP-related networking concepts including DNS, DHCP, PPPoE, RADIUS and IPv4/IPv6
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Splunk
Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
Cloud platform experience, ideally Google Cloud Platform, including automation and scaling practices
Strong Linux administration skills with scripting capability in Bash, Python or similar
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and source control tools such as GitHub Actions
Understanding of security frameworks and operational resilience best practices
DESIRABLE
Experience within ISP, MSP or telecommunications environments
Familiarity with enterprise IT architectures including OSS and BSS systems
Knowledge of information security frameworks such as ISO27001, NIST or GDPR
Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible
BENEFITS
Smart casual dress code
Free access to gym facilities
Access to a financial wellbeing platform (on successful completion of probationary period)
Access to an employee assistance programme, Virtual GP and Elderly Care support (on successful completion of probationary period)
Access to cycle to work, childcare, and electric vehicle schemes after six months
Brand new office with excellent transport links
Supportive team culture, growth and career progression
HOW TO APPLY
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Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS) Location: Greater Manchester (Hybrid, with travel as required) Salary: Competitive + benefits An organisation operating at national and international scale is looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS) to support and evolve a large, security-critical AWS environment as part of a major cloud transformation programme. You'll work closely with infrastructure, security, and development teams to design, build, and operate highly available, compliant, and cost-effective AWS services. Key responsibilities: Build, maintain, and optimise AWS infrastructure and services Support migrations from on-prem to AWS Implement and maintain security, monitoring, logging, and DR controls Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code Support AWS networking, WorkSpaces, and cost management Key requirements: 5+ years' hands-on AWS engineering experience AWS Associate certification (or equivalent experience) Strong knowledge of core AWS services, networking, and security best practices Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform) Strong Linux skills scripting experience desirable Nice to have: ISO27001 experience Containers (ECS, Kubernetes, Docker) ITIL / structured service management experience This is a great opportunity to work on a large-scale, impactful cloud platform with real-world significance. ? Apply now for a confidential discussion. InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. TPBN1\_UKTJ
As a Technical Lead, youll work directly with the founder to shape the technical vision and execution of a high-growth startup backed by a larger, established group. Youll lead a talented engineering squad, drive architectural decisions, and deliver scalable backend systems that support thousands of users-all while influencing the strategic direction of the product.
This is a hands-on leadership role where youll combine deep technical expertise with mentorship, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-moving startup environment.
The RoleTechnical Strategy & Leadership
- Work alongside the founder to define and evolve the technical roadmap
- Lead architectural design and critical technology decisions
- Champion engineering best practices, code quality, and technical excellence
- Mentor, coach, and grow engineers at all levels
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and innovation
Backend Architecture & Development
- Architect, build, and scale backend services and RESTful APIs
- Design, optimise, and maintain MongoDB database solutions
- Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability
- Resolve complex production issues with robust solutions
- Implement microservices and modern backend patterns
Collaboration & Delivery
- Partner with Product, Design, and the founder to deliver high-impact outcomes
- Participate in hiring and technical interviews to grow the engineering team
- Drive improvements in processes, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
- Ensure effective planning, estimation, and execution across initiatives
Core Technical Expertise
Youll thrive in this role if you have strong experience with:
- MongoDB (data modelling, indexing, aggregation pipelines, performance tuning)
- Node.js and the wider JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem
- Express.js and/or Fastify
- RESTful API design and distributed systems
- AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Microservices architecture
- Testing frameworks (Vitest, Jest, Mocha, etc.)
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
- GitHub workflows
- Observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog)
- Docker and Kubernetes
Tech Stack
Youll be working with:
- Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Express.js, Fastify
- MongoDB
- AWS
- Vue.js, Nuxt.js
Nice to Have AI Experience
Not essential, but highly desirable:
- Integrating AI/ML models into production systems
- Working with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
- Prompt engineering
- AI workflow tools (LangChain, Flowise)
- Building internal AI-powered automation tools
Why This Role is Exciting
- Work directly with the founder on a startup backed by a larger, established group
- Influence the technical and product direction from the ground up
- Hands-on leadership in a fast-moving, high-impact environment
Benefits
We genuinely invest in our people. Youll enjoy:
- Remote-first working (offices in London and Manchester)
- Flexible working hours
- 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays + 2 Christmas shutdown days
- Option to purchase an additional week of leave
Interested? Please Click Apply Now!Technical Lead - TypeScript / Node.js
Lead Software Engineer opportunity - 90k+Bonus+Equity - Fully Remote (Once a month meetup in Manchester or Leeds)
Morson Edge are seeking a skilled Lead Software Engineer with Golang experience to join a major replatforming and migration project focused on modernising existing software platforms and infrastructure. The role involves transforming Legacy systems to be cloud-ready, enabling on-demand deployment and delivery through a Docker and Kubernetes-based stack. You will work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams, combining software engineering expertise with a strong operational mindset.
The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, contributing to a large-scale migration and replatforming effort with a strong DevOps feel.
Key Responsibilities
Replatform existing software and infrastructure to be cloud-ready and support on-demand deployment
Develop and maintain Golang applications with a focus on infrastructure and deployment automation
Collaborate with DevOps teams to build and optimise Docker and Kubernetes-based delivery pipelines
Support migration activities and ensure alignment with cloud-native best practices
Provide training and handover to permanent engineering teams at project completion
Contribute to infrastructure as code and CI/CD workflows to improve deployment efficiency
Skills
Strong experience in Golang development
Solid understanding of DevOps principles and infrastructure automation
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes container orchestration
Experience with cloud platforms and making infrastructure cloud-ready
Familiarity with software replatforming and migration projects
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including permanent engineers
Experience with Scripting and automation tools
Nice to have: experience with C#/.Net development
Strong communication skills for training and knowledge transfer
The money is good too, up to 90k salary with a 10% bonus and equity in the business so that you can share in the success.
If youre interested in finding out more, apply through the link and Ill be in touch ASAP
InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Location: Manchester (Hybrid)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Salary: Up to £80,000 + Share Options Incentive Scheme
Morson Edge have partnered with a Global Tech oragnsation in their search for a Head of Site Reliability Engineering & Infrastructure to lead their SRE and Infrastructure capability within a modern, AWS-based environment.
This role suits a senior engineering leader who enjoys staying close to the technology, while also shaping direction, standards, and long-term reliability strategy. You won’t be expected to live in the weeds every day - but you will be comfortable engaging at a technical level when it matters.
Based in Manchester, you’ll work closely with engineering, product, and security leadership to ensure our platform remains resilient, scalable, and ready for growth.
The Role
You’ll be responsible for both the day-to-day reliability of the platform and the evolution of our SRE and infrastructure practices over time.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading the SRE and Infrastructure function, setting direction and priorities
- Balancing hands-on technical involvement with strategic planning and leadership
- Shaping and owning our AWS infrastructure and reliability roadmap
- Defining and embedding SRE best practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, and capacity planning
- Establishing and evolving SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering teams
- Acting as a senior technical voice in architecture discussions and operational decision-making
- Supporting incident response and post-incident reviews, with a focus on long-term improvement
- Developing, mentoring, and empowering a high-performing engineering team
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience in a senior SRE, Infrastructure, or Platform leadership role
- Strong, practical experience operating production systems in AWS
- Solid Linux systems and networking expertise (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, Firewalls, load balancing)
- Background designing or supporting highly available, distributed systems
- Good understanding of SRE principles and how to apply them pragmatically
- Experience with automation and infrastructure as code (eg Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Ability to operate comfortably at both a technical and strategic level
Nice to Have
- Container and orchestration experience (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
- Experience scaling platforms, teams, or operational maturity
- Exposure to security, compliance, or regulated environments
Why Join Them?
- Salary up to £80,000 plus a share options incentive scheme
- A leadership role with a healthy balance of strategy and technical influence
- Modern AWS and Linux-based platform
- Engineering-led culture that values reliability and thoughtful decision-making
- Manchester-based role with flexible/hybrid working
InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Lead Software Engineer - MongoDB / Node.js / JavaScript
As a Lead Engineer, you ll play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of the product. You ll guide a talented squad of engineers, drive architectural decisions, and deliver scalable backend systems that directly impact thousands of users.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you ll balance technical excellence with mentorship, collaboration, and strategic thinking.
What You ll Be Doing Technical Leadership
- Set the technical direction and lead architectural decision-making
- Mentor and support junior and senior engineers
- Conduct code reviews and uphold engineering best practices
Backend Engineering
- Build and maintain scalable backend services and RESTful APIs
- Design and optimise MongoDB database solutions
- Improve and maintain existing backend infrastructure
- Troubleshoot production issues and implement robust solutions
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful customer outcomes
- Participate in technical interviews and help grow the engineering team
- Drive improvements in processes, tooling, and development practices
Core Technical Skills
You ll thrive if you have experience with:
- MongoDB (data modelling, indexing, aggregation, performance tuning)
- Node.js and the wider JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem
- Express.js and/or Fastify
- RESTful API design
- AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Microservices architecture
- Testing frameworks (Vitest, Jest, Mocha, etc.)
- CI/CD pipelines & DevOps practices
- GitHub workflows
- Observability tools (e.g., DataDog)
- Docker / Kubernetes
Tech Stack You ll Be Working With
- Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Express.js, Fastify
- MongoDB
- AWS
- Vue.js, Nuxt.js
Nice to Have AI Experience
Not essential, but a big bonus:
- Integrating AI/ML models
- Working with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
- Prompt engineering
- AI workflow tools (LangChain, Flowise)
- Building internal AI automation tools
Benefits
This company genuinely invests in its people. You ll enjoy:
- Remote-first working with offices in London, Manchester
- Flexible hours
- 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays + 2 Christmas shutdown days
- Option to purchase an extra week off
Interested? Please Click Apply Now!
Ready to automate, innovate and make a real impact?
Do you want to build reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference to millions of people? Do you want to work at a certified B Corp with an inclusive and learning culture as part of a diverse team of great people?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. Working in DevOps, you’ll build and maintain the systems that let teams respond quickly to needs. You’llwork on high-impact projects, helping to build reliable, scalable systems. We align work to industry-recognised roles such as Build & Release Engineer (BRE), Platform Engineer (PLE) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and, where needed, to more specialised areas such as security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking.
What’s life like as a DevOps consultant at Opencast?
At Opencast, we love to keep things simple, and we love automation.
It’s not the same as your standard Devops Consultant job. Depending on your client’s needs, you’ll take on a range of roles. These will include:
- Taking the lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping communication channels open with all parties.
- Developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
- Collaborating with our clients to understand their ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
- Contributing within Opencast communities.
- Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
We care about building things right. We believe in good devops practices and keeping things simple. We want to support you as much as we can on interiorising our approach to devops engineering and you supporting others.
- We are proud consultants who combine our own experience and approach with our company values.
- We are comfortable with new tech. We are empowered, cloud native, vendor agnostic devops engineers. We are empathetic, patient and care about quality.
- We know when to pick our battles and how to manage expectations. We are humble, inclusive team players that listen and collaborate, with zero egos!
- We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team). And we’re always willing to learn.
- It’s a varied job that keeps you super technical and excited.
Salary:
- £50,000 - £60,000
Some of the benefits our offer includes:
- A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
- Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
- People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work:
- Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you:
- We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview:
- Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.