Site Reliability Engineer (Contract - Outside IR35)
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Location:
Onsite 5 days a week in Leeds, West Yorkshire
Contract Type:
6 months (initial) - Outside IR35
We're looking for an
experienced Site Reliability Engineer
to join on a fast-paced contract, driving down technical debt and delivering urgent, high-impact fixes across a mixed environment of
Linux, Windows, and Apache-based systems .
This isn't a greenfield build. It's a high-urgency, hands-on role where you'll patch vulnerabilities, remediate legacy issues, and stabilise infrastructure and applications, owning the end-to-end delivery of fixes with minimal oversight.
What You'll Be Doing
Patching & hardening:
Triage vulnerabilities across servers, apps, and services, applying fixes safely and quickly.
Technical debt remediation:
Refactor brittle components, clean up legacy systems, and stabilise critical services.
Full lifecycle fixes:
Take issues from diagnosis through to implementation, testing, and release.
Operate at pace:
Balance urgency with safety to deliver resilient solutions in production environments.
What We're Looking For
5+ years engineering experience
- backend, DevOps, SRE, or similar.
Proven record
in security patching, hotfixes, and incident remediation.
Strong scripting & coding
(Python, Bash, PowerShell; plus exposure to Java/C# or similar backend languages).
CI/CD fluency
- experience building and maintaining pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
Infrastructure expertise
- Linux (servers/hosting), Windows (enterprise/user-facing apps), Apache/web services.
Automation-first mindset
- comfortable with IaC (Terraform, Ansible), containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring tools.
Able to
work independently, prioritise rapidly, and ship safely under pressure.
If you're an experienced
Site Reliability Engineer
with a track record in patching, remediation, and technical debt reduction, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now with your CV and we'll follow up.
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