Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title
Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Asda House

Employment Type
Full time

Contract Type
Permanent

Hours Per Week
37.5

Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category
Infrastructure

Closing Date
27 November 2025

We're looking for an Observability focussed Associate Site Reliability Engineer to be part of our Engineering Excellence team.

Our Mission:
Increase efficiency and agility across engineering teams enabling them to mobilise quickly and deliver quality, secure, right first-time features for our customers at reduced costs.
Enable operations teams to pro-actively monitor and quickly report across critical systems.
Your application will be strongly considered if you have experience in Dynatrace, New Relic or Splunk.
Associate Site Reliability Engineer reports into the Engineering Manager and will work closely with observability engineers to implement monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities across our systems, contributing to enhanced reliability, performance, and visibility. The role will involve strong collaboration with others - be it learning from examples of existing great engineering work, collaborating with others to create it or supporting engineers to implement observability.

This role will initially focus almost exclusively on development in New Relic, configuration and support, and over time evolve to include the wider goals of the team.

Your Role

• Assist in implementing observability features such as dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, and metrics using tools like New Relic
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (SRE, DevOps, Business units) to understand monitoring requirements and support delivery of observability solutions
• Support efforts to define and maintain observability-as-code (dashboards, alerts, tags, notification channels)
• Help instrument applications and infrastructure using standards such as OpenTelemetry
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident analysis to improve system monitoring and response capabilities
• Learn and apply best practices in CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and DevOps tooling
• Support initiatives to automate and standardize observability across environments
• Take part in team meetings, design discussions, and contribute ideas for improving observability and engineering processes
• Document observability configurations, Blueprints, processes, and standards for internal use

What You'll Need

• Familiarity with observability concepts (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Exposure to New Relic as observability tool
• Understanding of CI/CD tools and basic DevOps workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions)
• Basic scripting or programming experience (e.g., Python, Bash, JavaScript, or similar)
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or similar instrumentation frameworks
• Understanding of distributed systems or microservices architecture
• Willingness to learn and take on new challenges in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

This role will initially focus almost exclusively on development in New Relic, configuration and support, and over time evolve to include the wider goals of the team.

What You'll Love

• Assist in implementing observability features such as dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, and metrics using tools like New Relic
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (SRE, DevOps, Business units) to understand monitoring requirements and support delivery of observability solutions
• Support efforts to define and maintain observability-as-code (dashboards, alerts, tags, notification channels)
• Help instrument applications and infrastructure using standards such as OpenTelemetry
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident analysis to improve system monitoring and response capabilities
• Learn and apply best practices in CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and DevOps tooling
• Support initiatives to automate and standardize observability across environments
• Take part in team meetings, design discussions, and contribute ideas for improving observability and engineering processes
• Document observability configurations, Blueprints, processes, and standards for internal use

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Please be advised that this position requires attendance at Asda House in Leeds for a minimum of three days per week. We're really looking forward to having you around
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You Will Also Get An Excellent Benefits Package Including

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves