Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Workrise, Belfast; Belfast; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Workrise is the source-to-pay solution built for energy. By combining purpose-built software with expert teams, we empower the world’s leading energy companies and their suppliers to work better, together.

Learn more about how Workrise is equipping everyone in the energy ecosystem to operate with greater speed and efficiency at workrise.com.

At Workrise, our Belfast Engineering Teams build the technology powering our next-generation marketplace. We work in agile, cross-functional teams focused on scalability, reliability, and continuous improvement.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll deploy product updates, resolve production issues, and implement integrations that meet company and client needs. Leveraging cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and automation, you’ll help evolve our platforms while ensuring performance and security.

This role offers the opportunity to shape how we scale and optimize systems, drive best practices, and mentor others—leaving things better than we found them.

What You’ll Be Doing

As you get up to speed, we’ll support you in becoming familiar with our teams, product domains, tech stack, and processes—helping you understand how we work together.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will:

• Automate and optimize operations – Design and develop tools to streamline application service operations, enhance observability, and ensure efficient auditing.
• Improve system reliability and security – Perform root cause analysis for production issues, implement long-term fixes, and proactively mitigate cybersecurity threats.
• Scale and maintain infrastructure – Support and evolve our Kubernetes-based microservices ecosystem to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate and drive best practices – Work closely with engineering, application, and product teams to implement scalable solutions while ensuring development aligns with operational excellence.
• Influence and mentor – Share expertise through technical demos, brown bag sessions, and design proposals, while mentoring engineers to foster technical growth across the organisation.

This role is an opportunity to drive automation, reliability, and security while shaping the future of our platform.

Our main tech stack includes: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes & Docker, Kotlin, Temporal, SpringBoot, React.js, Typescript, Material-UI, Next.js Node.js, MongoD, PostgreS and Kafka. If you have production scale experience in a different stack (Go, Java, Python, Scala, C#, etc.) and are interested in moving to a new stack, we should chat!

Who you are:

You're a hands-on developer who gets stuck in, you enjoy solving complex problems & building impactful solutions - importantly, you lead by example in making a difference.

• Take the initiative to own outcomes from start to finish - knowing what needs to be done within your domain and how we work together to deliver the best solution.
• You’ve a passion for developing your craft - you get what it takes to build quality, robust and scalable solutions.
• You’ll see the learning when things don’t quite go to plan - not just for you but how we continuously improve as a team.

So, what is important to us

• 5+ years of relevant DevOps / SRE experience
• 2+ years supporting a high availability cloud environment in a DevOps or SRE role
• Experience provisioning, deploying, and supporting containers with Helm / Kustomize, Kubernetes, and Docker)
• Hands-on monitoring tool usage (Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience with infrastructure as code technologies for cloud resources, preferably Terraform
• Familiarity with cloud service platforms (GCP, AWS or Azure, VPC, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, DNS, etc.)

Above all, you’ll get stuff done, more importantly, you’ll collaborate to do the right things, in the right way, to achieve the right outcomes.

Some of the things that would be nice to have, a plus but not required

• Previous experience working on teams building tools for developers
• Cloud security certification or background
• Experience configuring and maintaining a Kubernetes server mesh (Istio)

Note - all candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK and a satisfactory basic access NI background check.

Workrise are an equal opportunities employer and all appointments will be made on merit.

Please Note:

• All candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.
• All appointments will be made on merit.
• The successful candidate will be required to complete a Basic Access NI check prior to commencing employment.

More than a job:

Between now and 2050, global energy demand is forecasted to rise nearly 50%, which is a staggering number. With every step forward - AI, electrification, you name it - that bar may still get higher. Workrise is uniquely positioned to empower the biggest industry in the world to work smarter - and move faster - in the race to rise to this challenge. The world depends on it.

We recognize that making an impact matters to you and we believe in providing an environment that fosters your growth. We use data to drive our decisions and improve the experience of the workers and clients we serve. With mutual respect for each other, we continually collaborate to find the best solution.

We support you with:

• Talented peers who can help bring out your best
• The opportunity to significantly impact the lives of skilled laborers
• Competitive base salary & market-leading equity package (pre-IPO)
• Annual performance-related bonus opportunity
• 25 days of annual leave plus 11+ statutory days
• Group Critical Illness & Life Cover
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible approach to working
• Excellent new hire WFH office contribution
• Generous Family Friendly policies
• Wellness allowance

Workrise is committed to providing an environment where all people feel belonging, mutual respect, and the freedom to be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, educational background, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, veteran status, and citizenship. We’d love to learn what you can add to our team.

Who we are:

What began as a workforce management platform for Oil & Gas has since grown to serve the biggest companies in energy across both workforce and vendor management, absorbing much of the supply chain complexity these energy companies face and making it easier, faster, and safer to get work done. To date, Workrise has raised over $750M in funding from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Brookfield, Baillie Gifford, along with others, and will continue to use these investments for strategic growth.

We’d love to share more through the interview process and look forward to learning more about your journey.

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