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

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