Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Dayshape is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to support day-to-day operational and BAU workload, improve system stability, and increase delivery capacity across the team. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, product, and support teams to ensure Azure environments remain reliable, performant, and well-operated.

Requirements

• Significant experience as a Site Reliability Engineer at a Principal level
• Proven experience operating and supporting production systems in Microsoft Azure
• Very confident troubleshooting live cloud systems and resolving operational issues
• Strong experience with Azure services such as App Services, VMs, networking, storage, and Azure SQL
• Worked closely with Azure monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights)
• Comfortable setting technical direction with technical leads
• Experience with incident response and root cause analysis
• You are comfortable working across application, infrastructure, and cloud platform layers
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused, and able to pick up ongoing operational work quickly
• You have experience supporting.NET applications and Azure SQL Server
• Strong collaborator and communicate clearly with both engineers and stakeholders

Benefits

• Starting salary between £74,000 and £85,000, depending on experience
• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
• Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Private medical insurance, including dental and vision benefits
• Income protection and death in service cover
• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options