Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (DV, NPPV3 cleared) to support highly secure, business-critical systems in West Midlands, working across Linux environments, cloud and on-prem infrastructure, container platforms (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines and enterprise monitoring tools., * Maintain and improve the reliability, availability, scalability and performance of critical production systems.

• Design, implement and optimise monitoring, alerting and observability solutions.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident reviews in line with SRE best practices.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support safe, repeatable deployments.
• Automate operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system stability.
• Work closely with DevOps, Platform, Security and Development teams in a highly regulated environment.
• Support capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Produce and maintain clear technical documentation and operational runbooks.

• Proven experience working as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Active DV clearance and NPPV3 clearance (both essential).
• Strong Linux system administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience with cloud and platform technologies such as AWS, Azure or private cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk or Datadog.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools including Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, PowerShell or Go.
• Experience supporting CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of networking, security principles and access controls in secure environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex, distributed systems under pressure.

If you are a Site Reliability Engineer (DV, NPPV3 cleared) looking for a high-impact contract in a secure Birmingham-based environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply today - professional references required.