Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid - Gloucester

Anson McCade
Gloucester, United Kingdom
19 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 65K

Job location

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Java
JavaScript
Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Bash
Databases
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
Linux
Elasticsearch
MongoDB
OpenStack
Powershell
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Data Logging
Web Technologies
Puppet
Docker
ELK
Programming Languages
Microservices

Job description

A growing National Security-focused tech consultancy is expanding its engineering capability in Gloucester and is looking to hire Site Reliability Engineers to support critical, customer-facing applications.

This role sits between software engineering and operations - ideal for someone who enjoys working on live systems, solving complex issues, and improving how applications are built and supported. The position will involve working closely with development teams to resolve application-level issues, particularly where customers are impacted, while also building automation and long-term fixes to improve reliability and performance.

The environment is highly collaborative and engineering-led, with a strong focus on reducing manual support through automation and best practice., Software engineers looking to move closer to platform/SRE work Support engineers wanting a more engineering-led role Individuals who enjoy debugging, problem-solving, and improving systems rather than just maintaining them

Requirements

  • Experience troubleshooting application issues in live/production environments
  • Understanding of how applications behave across the full stack (code, infrastructure, databases)
  • Experience with at least one of the following:
  • Java or similar programming languages
  • JavaScript / web technologies
  • Familiarity with Linux or Windows environments (e.g. Bash, PowerShell)
  • Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or OpenStack
  • Experience with monitoring/logging tools (e.g. ELK stack)
  • Knowledge of databases such as MongoDB or Elasticsearch
  • Understanding of CI/CD or deployment tooling (e.g. Chef, Puppet)
  • Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker, microservices) is beneficial
  • Comfortable working in Agile environments

Benefits & conditions

  • Salary between £40,000 - £65,000 depending on experience
  • Hybrid and flexible working model
  • Company Benefits Pack
  • Opportunity to move into or further develop within SRE / DevOps engineering
  • Exposure to complex, high-impact systems in a secure environment
  • Strong focus on engineering improvement vs pure support work
  • On-call allowance as part of a shared rota

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