Why This Senior SRE Role Is Worth Your Time

Imagine joining a company right at the inflection point — the moment where the platform is evolving from “working” to “scaling,” where legacy needs untangling, where new architecture is being built, and where your decisions won’t just be noticed, they’ll shape the next five years of the business.

That’s where Partnerize is.
And that’s exactly the environment senior SREs thrive in.

If you are the kind of engineer who gets restless in environments where the big decisions were already made years ago, this role gives you the opposite experience — greenfield opportunity mixed with real operational responsibility.

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What Makes This Role Different

You won’t just maintain systems — you’ll rebuild them.
The estate is moving from older systems into modern, scalable, secure, cloud-ready infrastructure. We need someone who has actually lived through that transition: on-prem servers, real Linux admin, configuration management with Ansible, and the battle scars that come with running production systems under pressure.

You get autonomy, not micromanagement.
SREs here scope their own work, shape the projects the team takes on, and are trusted to get things done without layers of approvals.

You get to solve interesting problems at scale.
A large, distributed platform, used by global enterprise brands, with heavy data flows, real traffic, and no shortage of performance and reliability puzzles to unravel.

You get a hybrid SRE + Security role.
You are not siloed. You’ll shape platform security, threat modelling, vulnerability testing and influence how engineering builds secure products from day one. This is rare — most SRE roles keep security at arm’s length. This one puts it directly in your hands.

You mentor and have a voice.
You’ll guide the team, influence direction, and be the calm centre when incidents hit. Your leadership actually matters here.

You help modernise everything.
CI/CD, automation, containers, cloud, observability, performance tuning — you will be central to reshaping all of it.

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Who This Role Is Built For

This is for someone who:
• loves Linux and knows it deeply
• has lived in real on-prem environments (not just cloud-only)
• enjoys configuration management and automation (Ansible especially)
• thinks independently and thrives in fast-paced environments
• is curious by nature — the first to ask why something fails, not how to patch it
• wants ownership and autonomy instead of being a cog in a 300-engineer department

It’s perfect for the engineer who likes variety: one day threat modelling, another day writing Python for automation, another day designing infrastructure, another day deep-diving on a performance bottleneck.

This isn’t a “keep the lights on” job.
It’s a “build the next version of the platform and own it” job.

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Why Senior SREs Join Partnerize

Because the timing is perfect.
Because the work is meaningful.
Because the team listens.
Because the challenges are real.
Because you get to ship — not talk about shipping.

And because here, you get to shape the evolution of a global platform in a way that’s rare in today’s market.

UK Benefits & Perks

• 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
• Plus 5 extra 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Private Medical Insurance through Bupa
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
• Regular company events and activities