Site Reliability Engineer – 11863CF

Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will ensure the stability and performance of critical systems on a contract basis. You will work on-site in Gloucester four days a week, supporting DV-cleared environments and cloud-based services. You will leverage modern configuration management, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines to keep systems reliable and scalable. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate monitoring, security, and deployment practices that meet stringent UK government standards. This role offers hands-on responsibility and the chance to shape reliability at scale in a security-conscious setting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve system reliability and performance across environments
• Manage configuration with tools like Ansible or Chef
• Orchestrate containers using Kubernetes/OpenShift/Docker Swarm
• Develop and sustain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins)
• Monitor systems with InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana and respond to incidents
• Integrate MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or equivalent) and ensure data flows
• Work with relational databases and SQL to support services
• Administer Linux systems and shell scripting
• Implement security best practices across cloud hosting (AWS EC2/RDS/S3/Lambda)

Key requirements

• DV cleared (live)
• Experience with Terraform
• Container orchestration experience
• CI/CD tooling proficiency
• Monitoring and observability tooling experience
• MQ messaging integration
• Relational databases and SQL knowledge
• Linux administration and scripting
• Cloud hosting experience (AWS)
• Network security protocol understanding

• collaborative
• proactive
• clear communication
• Ansible
• Chef
• Terraform

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