Job Description
Contract: Site Reliability Engineer (Linux Administration & Server Hardware)Location: Glasgow (hybrid - 3 days onsite)Duration: 6 monthsDay Rate: Negotiable (Inside IR35 via umbrella solution)Reference: 20460We are looking for an experienced Linux Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-performing infrastructure support team focused on maintaining and improving critical platform reliability within a large-scale enterprise environment.This position will focus on resolving hardware and platform-related incidents escalated from the L3 support team. The successful candidate will have strong Linux systems expertise and, hands-on physical server troubleshooting experience, and a proactive approach to operational improvement, automation, and incident reduction.Essential Skills / RequirementsStrong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills (process, networking basics, logs,package/service management).Solid understanding of server hardware and peripherals (disks, RAID/HBA, NICs,firmware) and how failures present at OS level.Experience with out-of-band management / lights-out technologies (e.g., iDRAC, iLO,IPMI/Redfish) for remote troubleshooting and recovery.Proven ability to own incidents end-to-end: triage, identify mitigations/workarounds,coordinate with L3/engineering, communicate status, and drive to resolution.Understanding of SRE operational practices and metrics (e.g., SLO/SLI concepts, errorbudgets, MTTD/MTTR) and a continuous-improvement mindset.Strong communication skills (written and verbal): clear incident updates,customer/stakeholder management, and effective escalation and handoffs.Strong documentation skills: writing clear runbooks/procedures, contributing to knowledgebases, and participating in post-incident reviews/root cause analysis.Nice to Have / Desired SkillsScripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python) to build small tools, checks, andworkflow automation that reduce toil.Familiarity with virtualization and containerization concepts/operations (e.g.,VMware/KVM, Docker, Kubernetes) and using automation to support these environments.Experience with monitoring/observability and alerting workflows (dashboards, loganalysis, alert tuning) and translating signals into actionable response stepsNetworking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.TPBN1_UKTJ