SRE Engineer

SRE Engineer - Birmingham, Flexible hybrid working | Full-Time / Permanent Competitive salary + bonus and excellent benefits including healthcare, wellbeing support, 27 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, life insurance and more.

We're looking for a proactive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Engineer to join the digital & technology team at Compass Group UK & Ireland - a global leader in food services. You play a key role in this innovative team helping ensure our digital products and platforms are reliable, resilient and high-performing.

Working across engineering, platform and service operations teams, you'll champion SRE best practices, improve observability, automate operational processes and help drive the transition from reactive support to proactive, engineering-led reliability.

If you're passionate about service resilience, automation and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you. Compass Digital & Technology is where ideas turn into possibilities. We're the technology team behind Compass Group UK&I, part of Compass Group, one of the world's largest hospitality businesses.

We're shaping the next generation of products, platforms and experiences for Compass Group, harnessing AI to create competitive advantage and accelerate growth. We create, manage and deploy technology which supports our operators, clients and guests.

From everyday IT support to enterprise-scale cloud engineering, cybersecurity, mobile ordering and guest-facing experiences, our work reaches across the business and into the daily lives of millions of people. But D&T is about more than technology.

It's a place to be curious, challenge what's possible and turn great ideas into real outcomes. A place where talented people collaborate, experiment, learn and make an impact at scale. We own it from idea to outcome. We challenge what's possible.

And together, we're creating better solutions, every day. SRE Engineer - The role Implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), error budgets and service health measures for critical services.

Build and maintain observability capabilities including monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards and alerting frameworks. Support production readiness reviews, resilience testing, capacity planning and operational acceptance activities.

Automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual effort across supported services. Contribute to incident response, post-incident reviews and reliability improvement initiatives. Collaborate with Platform Engineering and Software Engineering teams to embed reliability and operability into delivery pipelines.

Improve alert quality by reducing noise, optimising thresholds and linking alerts to actionable runboo...

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