Site Reliability Engineer - Outside Of Ir35 Contract

• Up to £575 p/d OUTSIDE IR35
• Cheltenham location - 5 days p/w onsite
• 6-month rolling contract
• Must have active enhanced DV Clearance
• Key skills: Ansible/Terraform/CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS

Summary

Our cross-domain services are integral to prominent government organizations, with increasing demand in both scope and scale. We are hiring an experienced Site Reliability Engineer for our high-profile government services to ensure availability, performance, and cost efficiency. In this role, you will collaborate with feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to enhance our cloud and on-prem infrastructure, optimise delivery pipelines, improve system observability, showcase performance and capacity enhancements, and proactively address reliability risks.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate on software reliability and performance.
• Automate tasks with System Administrators.
• Proactively address issues through enhanced observability.
• Support development environments for goals.
• Research technologies for buy-vs-build decisions.
• Develop expertise across domains.
• Expand knowledge of technical stacks.

Key Skills and Experience Required:

• Proficient in modern configuration tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef), Terraform, and Docker.
• Skilled in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins), monitoring tools (InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana), and event-driven integration with MQ messaging.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL, Linux command line, and network security protocols.
• Experienced in cloud hosting services (preferably AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) and well-tested code writing (Java, Go, Python).
• Knowledgeable in cross-domain principles, service management environments, and applying observability patterns for system metrics and downtime reduction.