Overview
Contract: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: UK/Ireland/Netherlands with EU travel required 2-3 times per year (4-12 weeks at a time)
Rate: circa £400-405 per day outside of IR35. Travel expensed
Start: ASAP
Duration: 12 months
Reference: 20151
You will need to hold an EU passport in order to be able to work and travel in Europe freely for long periods at a time. We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a background in Networking to join a high-performing engineering team on a long-term contract project. This contract is hybrid working remotely and then on site for periods of time during deployments with EU travel required 2-3 times per year, for up to 8 weeks at a time.
Responsibilities
* Design, operate, and maintain highly available and scalable Kubernetes environments
* Ensure platform reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response
* Implement and maintain secure networking, PKI, and service mesh solutions
* Troubleshoot complex issues across Linux, Windows, networking, and hardware layers
* Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system resilience and operational maturity
* Support infrastructure automation and observability initiatives
Required Skills & Experience (Must Have)
* Kubernetes — strong hands-on experience operating production clusters in on-prem environment
* Networking — deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, and network troubleshooting
* Linux — strong administration and troubleshooting skills
* Windows (Basics) — working knowledge of Windows systems
* PKI — certificates, TLS, and secure communications
* Hardware — understanding of server hardware and physical infrastructure
* (Service Mesh) — traffic management, security, and observability
Nice to Have
* Windows (Advanced) — in-depth administration and troubleshooting
* Ansible — configuration management and automation
* Prometheus — monitoring and alerting solutions
Optional / Beneficial Experience
* Storage Technologies & Hardware — enterprise storage systems and concepts
* Firewall Hardware — deployment and operational experience
* Cilium — eBPF-based networking and security
* Grafana / Loki — metrics visualization and log aggregation
* Virtualization in Kubernetes — running or integrating virtualized workloads within Kubernetes environments
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Reference: 20151
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