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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Defence / National Security - 75k - Farnborough - Hybrid A permanent opportunity for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building secure, automated, and highly reliable platforms. This role sits within a defence and national security environment, working on modern infrastructure where automation, resilience, and secure-by-design principles are fundamental. You'll work closely with platform engineers, infrastructure teams, and operational stakeholders to take requirements from early design and proof-of-concept through to production. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical design, offering real influence over tooling, standards, and DevOps ways of working. It suits someone curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in complex, regulated environments. What you'll be doing Designing, delivering, upgrading, and maintaining core platforms, services, and automations Building and improving monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms Designing secure infrastructure using automation-first approaches Creating and productionising proofs of concept for new tools and technologies Diagnosing and resolving performance, reliability, and availability issues Supporting architecture, documentation, and non-functional requirements Mentoring engineers and helping improve DevOps and SRE practices Essential experience Strong experience with Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows Server environments Hands-on scripting skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell or similar) Proven experience with automation and DevOps tooling (Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Git) Experience working with Azure or similar cloud platforms Solid understanding of infrastructure reliability, monitoring, and incident response Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work across multiple priorities Willingness to work in secure, regulated environments (SC eligibility required) Desirable experience Infrastructure-as-Code lifecycle and best practices Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) Configuration management and desired state tooling Application and platform monitoring tools (Splunk, Nagios or similar) Experience hardening systems and conducting security assessments Understanding of Agile and DevOps principles in practice A collaborative, inclusive culture with strong benefits including competitive pay, bonus, pension, private healthcare, generous leave, professional development, wellbeing perks, and modern on-site facilities.

DV Cleared Site Reliability Engineer London - 5 Days Onsite Up to 550 per day (Umbrella, Inside IR35) 12-Month Contract Must hold live and transferrable DV Clearance Are you passionate about reliability, automation, and supporting mission-critical systems? Join this global defence organisation as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and help shape the future of one of the UK's most vital national security platforms. You'll be joining a growing SRE team at the heart of the customer's mission, focused on ensuring performance, availability, and scalability-while driving continuous improvement and innovation. About the Role As an SRE, you'll combine your operational expertise with software engineering skills to minimise manual effort and drive automation across complex systems. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on solving hard problems, automating the mundane, and building intelligent tools to enhance system reliability. Key Responsibilities Support and maintain essential services behind critical applications. Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota (1 week in 5), with extra allowance and overtime. Proactively enhance system availability, performance, and resilience. Develop tools and solutions to automate repetitive tasks and reduce operational toil. Collaborate with development teams to embed best practices and SRE principles. Deploy and manage monitoring systems to provide intelligent observability. Engage with the wider DevOps/SRE community within the organisation. Ideal Skills & Experience We're more interested in your curiosity, enthusiasm, and problem-solving ability than ticking every box. However, experience in any of the following areas would be advantageous: Software development in web technologies or OOP (e.g., Python, Java, etc.) Database tech: Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Proficient with Linux/Windows command line (Bash, PowerShell) Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk Agile working and tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence) Diagnosing and resolving complex system issues ITIL knowledge or exposure to IT service operations Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Awareness of modern tech trends and tooling Security Requirements DV clearance holder only Why Apply? Join a forward-thinking SRE team in an environment where your work directly supports UK national security. Help shape tooling, practices, and culture from the ground up. Work alongside brilliant minds on meaningful problems. Receive ongoing training and professional development. If you're excited about automation, resilient systems, and the opportunity to work on a high-impact project-this is your chance to make a difference.