Site Reliability Engineer - Public Sector - Outside IR35 - Edinburgh (Hybrid)
Day Rate - up to £560 (outside IR35)
Duration - 6 months
Harvey Nash's Client are hiring an experienced SRE, to support and enhance an existing digital platform.
Responsibilities
* Support deployment and migration for services to RHEL8/9
* Develop and strengthen automation to support disaster recovery activities
* Support for existing & new UNIX infrastructure
* Optimisation of existing services & infrastructure
* Support and deploy Ansible Automation Platform
* Support Oracle Database 19c on Oracle Linux. On KVM
* Support logging and observability stacks inc time series databases
* Promote SLO/SLI measurement & Tracking
* Support pipeline enhancements and deployments
* Engage and provide guidance to external teams on service consumption
Skills & Experience Required
Significant and demonstrable commercial experience of the following:
* Unix
o RHEL 7/8/9 System administration
o Red Hat Satellite administration
o Automation - IAC Principles
o Load Balancer technologies, e.g. HAProxy and keepalived
o Shell scripting, specifically Bash and Perl
Strong experience with container creation and management
* Docker, and various run time environments
* RHEL OpenShift or within Kubernetes environment - system administration
Experience working with a CI/CD driven hybrid environment
* Knowledge of IAC principles and continuous development
* Knowledge and experience working with Git reversion control
* Pipeline configuration and deployment, Ansible Automation Platform / Git
* runners etc
Experience with Monitoring and observability
* Deployment and configuration of Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch
* Time series Database experience with Influx
* Full stack administration - TICK / elastic search / open search / Fluentd
Experience of AWS Cloud based services
* Configuration and deployment of common AWS services, VPC, EC2, S3, NLB
* IAC approaches to AWS automation i.e. Terraform, CDK
Other
* Agile working practices, including Kanban/Scrum, retrospectives, VFQ.
* Customer focused, through proactive engagement
* Risk aware, focused on risk reduction and mitigation
* Effective team working and technical decision making
* Designing and leading infrastructure projects
* Creativity - taking new approaches to tackle problems; embracing innovation and
* sharing knowledge with a range of stakeholders
Desirable Skills & Experience
* General security design and architecture knowledge
* Support of MongoDB on RHEL
* Python, and integration with 3rd party API
* Backup - CommVault
* Oracle - KVM / LVM - Virtualisation
* AWS EKS
Please note that a BPSS clearance is required for this post.
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