Site Relability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Contract | £600–£650/day | Hybrid (Southampton or Sutton)

Location: Grosvenor House (Southampton) or Sutton – 2 days in the office
Contract Length: 6 months (strong potential for extension)
Start Date: ASAP
Hours: 40 hours/week
Rate: £500–£550 per day (inside IR35)

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic cross-functional team. You’ll play a key role in maintaining, optimizing, and scaling our internal applications and production environments — ensuring performance, reliability, and innovation are at the core of everything we do.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a collaborative environment with talented engineers, leveraging modern cloud technologies and best practices in reliability engineering.

 Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and support internal applications.

• Diagnose and resolve complex system performance issues.

• Improve system monitoring and reporting capabilities.

• Champion SRE best practices and influence technical direction.

• Implement and maintain IaaS solutions (AWS preferred).

• Utilize diagnostics tools (dumps, traces, etc.) to troubleshoot production issues.

• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement across teams.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.

• Deep technical expertise with Linux.

• Strong experience with Python and/or scripting languages (e.g., Bash).

• Proficiency with databases such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server.

• Proven experience designing and maintaining highly available AWS environments (VPCs, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3).

• Strong grasp of security engineering and best practices.

• Advanced knowledge of CI/CD, configuration management (e.g., Puppet), and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).

• Experience with containerization (Docker on Linux).

• Monitoring enthusiast — hands-on with Grafana, Elastic, StatusCake, PagerDuty, or similar.

• Strong business awareness and ability to deliver on strategic goals.

Desirable Skills

• Agile delivery experience.

• Knowledge across Linux, networking, storage, and databases.

• Familiarity with security tooling and cloud-native architectures.

• Excellent communication — able to explain technical concepts clearly.

• Experience administering scalable, cloud-native applications.

Interview Process

1. Stage 1: Introductory call with Hiring Manager + team member

2. Stage 2: In-person technical interview

Ready to take on your next challenge as an SRE?
Apply now and join a forward-thinking team delivering reliable, high-performance solutions!

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