Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer Gloucester or Manchester | Hybrid | £40,000£65,000 Eligibility for Security Clearance required Were working with a leading organisation in the National Security space that is growing its engineering capability across the UK.

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.

Theyre looking for Site Reliability Engineers to help build, maintain and improve critical services supporting mission-focused applications.

This is a hands-on role for engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, automating repetitive work and making systems more reliable, scalable and resilient.

What youll be doing Supporting and maintaining critical services, improving their availability, performance and stability Automating repetitive operational tasks and reducing manual intervention wherever possible Working closely with software and product teams to improve how systems are designed, built and operated Instrumenting applications and using monitoring and observability to identify issues and demonstrate improvements Troubleshooting problems across the application, infrastructure and platform stack Working with cloud infrastructure and containerised/microservices environments Contributing to the wider DevOps and SRE community Helping introduce new technologies and approaches that improve reliability and operational efficiency What were looking for Youll ideally have experience across a number of the following: Software development with Java and web technologies such as JavaScript/HTML Linux and Windows, including Bash and/or PowerShell Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or OpenStack Monitoring and observability tools, particularly ELK/Elastic Databases such as MongoDB Configuration/deployment tooling such as Chef or Puppet Docker and microservices architectures Diagnosing and troubleshooting application and service outages Agile/Scrum environments and tools such as Jira Automation and testing frameworks such as Selenium ITIL principles and operational service management Open-source technologies and/or extending existing open-source solutions You don't need to tick every box.

We're particularly interested in engineers who have a strong troubleshooting mindset, enjoy automation and understand the relationship between software, infrastructure and reliable services.

Why join? This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging projects where your engineering skills can have a genuine impact.

You'll be part of a growing SRE/DevOps community, working with modern technologies across cloud, automation, monitoring and distributed systems, while having the opportunity to develop your skills and work on projects supporting the National Security sector. xwzovoh

Security clearance will be required for the role, with applicants needing to meet the relevant UK residency and vetting requirements.