Site Reliability Engineer

Join the SiXworks Revolution as an Site Reliability Engineer! 🌟

Welcome to SiXworks, where innovation thrives and excitement knows no bounds!

Established in 2017, we're not your ordinary company. We're a dynamic team specialising in fail-safe, fail-fast, Agile design that empowers organizations to rapidly refine their requirements and seize IT opportunities.

Do you have a passion for Automation and DevOps principles?

Are you able to lab new technologies and ways of working while also able to draw beautiful diagrams, then deliver those designs to the end user?

Do you want to work in an organisation working on the latest technologies and incorporating solutions in an innovative way?

Are you ready to learn about Secure by Design methodologies from a company working in National Security & Defence?

You will work closely with Platform and Infrastructure Engineers, project stakeholders and operational support teams to bring requirements though the Proof-of-Concept stage, and into a production ready deployment. Automation and security are key factors when designing, developing and deploying reliable and resilient Infrastructure in both our internal and customer environments.

Purpose of Role

• Part of the team responsible for Delivering, Upgrading and Maintaining Core Service and Project platforms, systems and automations
• Develop and maintain SiXworks Core monitoring and management platforms.
• Help ensure the required monitoring is in place and of good quality.
• Work closely with engineers, developers, operations, QA etc. in the design, hardening and optimisation of products and platforms.
• Work closely with project stakeholders and operational support teams to design and deliver work on-spec and in a timely fashion.
• Help in the architecture and design of new deployments and services.
• Design and Deploy proof of concept (PoC) for new technologies and services, as well as bring them to production.
• Conduct security risk, vulnerability assessments and hardening on developed or installed solutions.
• Design, build and maintain automation tooling.
• Work with automation tools and other technologies to improve performance, deployment procedures and reliability of solutions.
• Analyse, diagnose, and solve performance issues on various software such as Linux, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc.
• Work to ensure and build that the required documentation is in place and of good quality.
• Helps to ensure that all necessary integration and non-functional requirements are met when developing solutions.
• Help and mentor other team members.
• Improve DevOps working practices to improve quality and service.

Essential Skills

• Linux and Windows OS and infrastructure
• Very good knowledge of Linux administration (such as Ubuntu)
• Good Knowledge of a scripting language (such as Bash, PHP, Python, PowerShell)
• Good Knowledge of automation/DevOps tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, GIT etc).
• Good experience with Azure or similar public/on-prem cloud technologies and services
• Good understanding of implementing Desired State Configuration
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Willing to always learn and research new technologies is a must.
• Willing to work in a fast-paced environment, on multiple projects concurrently.

Desirable Skills

To be successful in this role you will need a good number of the following skills:

• Problem solving complemented by good analytical and reasoning abilities.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development life cycle and best practices
• Awareness of security concerns and best practices
• Configuration As Code (DSC, Ansible or similar)
• Infrastructure As Code (ARM Templates, Terraform)
• Continuous Inspection Tooling
• Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) & Windows Server (2019/2022)
• Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Installation, Configuration and Automation
• Containerisation (Docker, Podman) and Container Orchestration Systems (Kubernetes, Swarm)
• Configuration Management Tooling (GitLab or similar)
• Project/Issue Management Tooling (JIRA or similar)
• Cloud Providers (Azure/Azure Stack Hub)
• Application monitoring and alarms (Nagios, Splunk or similar)
• Strong communication and documentation skills (Confluence)
• Deployment and management of large-scale systems and estates
• Ability to advocate DevOps principles, practices and philosophy.
• Understanding of Agile working principles and practices
• Ability to work closely with project managers, operational support teams, and even directly with the customer.

The role will require the candidate holds at least SC clearance, and you will be sponsored through this process if not held.

Benefits:

• Exciting and interesting work.

• Bonus scheme.

• Casual dress.

• Free hot and cold drinks in our own, modern kitchen/break-out.

• Secure, on-site parking, cafe, restaurant, and gym facilities.

• Company events & social hours.

• Professional Development opportunities.

• Private Healthcare.

• Contributory pension scheme.

• Maternity / Paternity pay.

• Friendly and supportive team.

Our SiXworks team is a fusion of brilliance, featuring senior operational, technical, and business leaders from various industries and the armed forces. We're also powered by a league of extraordinary IT engineers, architects, developers, and project managers. Together, we're an unstoppable force of innovation!

SiXworks’ expertise includes secure-by-design, cloud computing and services, advanced network, platform and infrastructure design, rapid application development, cross-security domain systems, multi-source data platforms, cyber vulnerability mitigation and intelligence systems. SiXworks provides supplier-agnostic, technical and business consultancy to customers, and champions opensource and best of breed technologies.

To date we have worked exclusively in the Defence and Security Sector, providing IT innovation projects and programmes, analysis and output-based consultancy.

*Direct applicants only - no agency submissions*