Role: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Gloucester (hybrid) - GG08-GG10
Package: £40,000 - £65,000, Performance Bonus, Private Healthcare + a range of other benefits
Join a growing National Security team delivering mission-critical solutions for high-profile clients. Work on essential services supporting core applications in demanding environments, blending software engineering with operational reliability.
Key responsibilities:
* Support and maintain services for mission applications, enhancing availability, performance and stability
* Automate operations to limit manual toil (incident tickets, on-call) to under 50% of time
* Instrument applications for monitoring; demonstrate daily improvements using ELK or similar
* Advise product teams on scalable, resilient system design
* Troubleshoot outages across stack; innovate to avoid repetitive work
* Participate in DevOps/SRE community; engage in local tech outreach
Candidate profile:
* Software development experience (Java, JavaScript, HTML)
* Linux/Windows CLI (Bash, PowerShell); cloud (AWS/Azure/OpenStack)
* Deployment tools (Chef, Puppet); monitoring (ELK); Agile/Jira
* Container/microservices (Docker); troubleshooting skills
* Database familiarity (Elastic, Mongo); ITIL awareness
* UK residency for security vetting (Baseline PSS minimum)
Reference: AMC/JWH/SRBG