Hays are now looking for a Site Reliability Engineer for one of our local clients.
1. 2-3 days a week in Herefordshire
2. Circa £450 per day, Outside IR35
3. 6 month initial contract
4. Must currently be SC or DV Cleared
The Site Reliability Engineer to support and improve the reliability and performance of our clients’ digital platforms. You’ll work alongside engineering and operational teams to help design, operate and evolve resilient systems that meet demanding availability and performance expectations.
The Role
5. Support the design, operation and continuous improvement of infrastructure across client environments
6. Work with software engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability and performance of client‑owned services
7. Partner with operational and support teams to automate manual work and reduce operational toil
8. Improve monitoring, alerting and observability to identify and resolve issues before they impact end users
9. Support client development and test environments to enable consistent, high‑quality delivery
10. Contribute to identifying capacity, performance and reliability risks and driving remediation activities
11. Evaluate tools, platforms and approaches to support informed technical decisions
12. Develop a strong understanding of differing client environments, platforms and delivery models
Skills & Experience Required
13. Strong experience with configuration management tools, with Ansible required (Chef or similar beneficial)
14. Experience defining and managing infrastructure using Terraform
15. Hands-on experience with container technologies and orchestration platforms ( Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm)
16. Experience building, operating or supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or equivalent
17. Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana or InfluxDB
18. Exposure to event‑driven or message‑based architectures ( RabbitMQ or other AMQP solutions)
19. Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
20. Confident working in Linux environments, including administration and shell scripting
21. Knowledge of networking concepts and security protocols
22. Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally includingpute, storage, databases and serverless services
#4760450 - Jonathan Davies