Site Reliability Engineer

6 days ago

Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom itecopeople Full time £60,000 - £90,000 per year

Day Rate:
£500 - £600

Location:
Hybrid - Herefordshire (occasional travel to other UK sites)

Contract Position
Availability:
On-call rota (24/7 when required)

Security Clearance:
Must be eligible for DV Clearance

Start Date
: ASAP

Overview
We're looking for a
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
to join our client's growing cross-domain services team, supporting critical systems used by major UK government organisations. As part of this dynamic environment, you'll play a key role in ensuring our platforms remain
highly available, performant, and cost-efficient
.

You'll collaborate closely with software development, support, and operations teams to improve cloud and on-prem infrastructure, optimise CI/CD pipelines, enhance system observability, and proactively manage reliability risks across complex environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Partner with Software Engineers to enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance.
  • Collaborate with System Administrators to automate repetitive tasks and streamline alerts.
  • Advance monitoring and observability practices to identify and resolve issues before they affect users.
  • Support development and testing environments to help meet delivery and quality objectives.
  • Research, evaluate, and recommend tools and technologies to improve operational efficiency.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the technical ecosystem, contributing to both cloud and on-prem solutions.

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Strong background with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
  • Expertise with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Swarm).
  • Skilled in CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI).
  • Proficient with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB).
  • Experience integrating event-driven systems using MQ solutions (RabbitMQ or similar).
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
  • Advanced Linux administration and shell scripting skills.
  • Familiarity with network security protocols.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining systems on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda).

Desirable Skills

  • Programming experience in Java, Go, or Python.
  • Understanding of cross-domain technologies and security models.
  • Background in service management environments and ITIL practices.
  • Proven application of observability patterns and system health metrics.
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services.

For more information, send your CV to Ryan at

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