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# eDV Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** Cheltenham, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, OpenShift, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Grafana, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk, Jenkins
- **Published:** November 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.hays.co.uk/job-detail/edv-site-reliability-engineer-cheltenham_4844069

## About the Role

* Active eDV clearance
 * Strong AWS experience
 * Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
 * Terraform
 * CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar)
 * Python, Bash or Go
 * Monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Splunk
 * Incident management, root cause analysis and reliability engineering principles
 * Strong Linux administration experience

Experience supporting secure Government, Defence or Intelligence programmes is highly desirable.

## Description

Location: Cheltenham (3-4 days onsite)
Contract: Long-Term Contract | Outside IR35
Clearance: Active eDV Required

We're supporting a major National Security programme seeking an experienced eDV-cleared Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build, automate and support highly secure cloud platforms.

You'll play a key role in improving platform reliability, automating operational processes, implementing monitoring and observability solutions, and supporting critical workloads across AWS environments. Working alongside DevOps Engineers, Platform Engineers and Software Developers, you'll help drive SRE best practices and enhance system resilience across mission-critical services.

Key Skills & Experience

 * Active eDV clearance
 * Strong AWS experience
 * Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
 * Terraform
 * CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar)
 * Python, Bash or Go
 * Monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Splunk
 * Incident management, root cause analysis and reliability engineering principles
 * Strong Linux administration experience

Experience supporting secure Government, Defence or Intelligence programmes is highly desirable.

If you're an eDV-cleared SRE looking for your next long-term contract opportunity, we'd be keen to hear from you. Please get in touch for further details.

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