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.

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 bet...