Day Rate: £500 - £600
Location: Hybrid - 3-4 days on site per week Herefordshire (occasional travel to other UK sites)
Contract Position - Hybrid 3-4 days on-site - 4 days is preferable - 3-month rolling contract
Availability: On-call rota (24/7 when required)
Security Clearance: Security Clearance (SC) required - DV MOD Preferred - Must be eligible for DV Clearance
Start Date: ASAP
3 month rolling contract
Overview
We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our client's growing cross-domain services team, supporting critical systems used by major UK government organisations. As part of this dynamic environment, you'll play a key role in ensuring our platforms remain highly available, performant, and cost-efficient.
You'll collaborate closely with software development, support, and operations teams to improve cloud and on-prem infrastructure, optimise CI/CD pipelines, enhance system observability, and proactively manage reliability risks across complex environments.
Key Responsibilities
* Partner with Software Engineers to enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance.
* Collaborate with System Administrators to automate repetitive tasks and streamline alerts.
* Advance monitoring and observability practices to identify and resolve issues before they affect users.
* Support development and testing environments to help meet delivery and quality objectives.
* Research, evaluate, and recommend tools and technologies to improve operational efficiency.
* Develop a deep understanding of the technical ecosystem, contributing to both cloud and on-prem solutions.
Essential Skills & Experience
* Strong background with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
* Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
* Expertise with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Swarm).
* Skilled in CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI).
* Proficient with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB).
* Experience integrating event-driven systems using MQ solutions (RabbitMQ or similar).
* Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
* Advanced Linux administration and shell scripting skills.
* Familiarity with network security protocols.
* Experience deploying and maintaining systems on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda).
Desirable Skills
* Programming experience in Java, Go, or Python.
* Understanding of cross-domain technologies and security models.
* Background in service management environments and ITIL practices.
* Proven application of observability patterns and system health metrics.
* Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services.
For more information, send your CV to Ryan at rmitchell@itecopeople.co.uk
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