Job Specifications
AWS Site Reliability Engineer (Data Platform) – Contract
Location: Glasgow
Rate: £450 per day (Inside IR35)
Working Pattern: Onsite, 5 days per week
Contract Length: February 2026 – January 2027
Role Overview
We are recruiting an AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support a cloud-native data platform for a major international financial services organisation. The platform is built on AWS, with core components including Snowflake and Databricks, and underpins critical analytics and data services used across the business.
This role focuses on reliability engineering, automation, observability, and resilience. You will work closely with data engineering and platform teams to ensure the platform is scalable, highly available, and operationally robust in a regulated, high-availability environment.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, platform operations, and incident response using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD
Lead resiliency and disaster recovery (DR) planning, including DR testing, failure scenarios, and recovery validation across AWS and data platform services
Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical data pipelines and platform services, using error budgets to drive reliability improvements
Build and operate comprehensive observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) across AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks workloads
Partner with data engineering and platform teams to embed reliability-by-design into architecture and delivery
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on incidents and drive continuous improvement to reduce operational toil
Own and drive resolution of incidents and service requests raised by platform consumers, identifying recurring issues and automating fixes to improve reliability and user experience
Required Skills & Experience
Strong practical experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLO/SLI/SLA design and error budgets
Proven production experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch)
Hands-on experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK)
Experience building and operating observability and monitoring solutions
Scripting experience in Python and/or Bash
Exposure to data platforms such as Snowflake and/or Databricks
Contact
Harry – Paritas Recruitment
Email: harry@paritasrecruitment.com
Mobile: +44 7702 946 250
About the Company
Paritas Recruitment is a specialist Audit (Business & IT), Risk (Credit, Market, Operational, Quantitative, Regulatory), Compliance and Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning and Technology recruitment agency established to offer our clients and candidates a more personalised and effective service.
Our skilled and experienced team of Directors and Consultants recruit across the whole financial services sector, e-commerce, consultancy, healthtech, oil & gas, retail, artificial intelligence, technology and more.
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