Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Engineer at Deloitte, Glasgow, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Contract Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Engineer

Contract Location: Glasgow. Hybrid

Contract Duration: 6 months initially (with potential extension)

Contract Start Date: Immediate

Contract Classification: Inside IR35

Overview

We are supporting a leading global financial services organisation on a major cloud transformation programme and are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Cloud Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team.

The successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing cloud reliability, scalability, automation and operational excellence across enterprise cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.

• Drive SRE best practices including observability, resilience, reliability engineering and automation.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform.

• Build and enhance automation tooling using Python.

• Support cloud platform engineering activities across Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Manage and optimise containerised workloads and Kubernetes environments.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues across multiple operating systems.

• Collaborate with development, platform and security teams to improve platform stability and performance.

• Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native operational processes.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.

• Proven experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Engineering or DevOps role.

• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python.

• Extensive experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

• Experience working across multiple operating systems (Linux and Windows environments).

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes and containerisation technologies.

• Experience implementing monitoring, observability and reliability best practices.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience within large-scale enterprise or financial services environments.

• Exposure to CI/CD tooling and cloud-native engineering practices.

• Knowledge of cloud security and governance controls.