Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Defence
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Job Location:
Farnborough - UK
Yearly Salary:
GBP 70000 - 75000
Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Defence / National Security 75k Farnborough Hybrid
A permanent opportunity for an experiencedSite Reliability Engineerwho enjoys building secure automated and highly reliable platforms. This role sits within a defence and national security environment working on modern infrastructure whereautomation resilience and secure-by-design principlesare fundamental.
Youll 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 youll 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 withLinux (Ubuntu)andWindows Serverenvironments
- Hands-on scripting skills (Bash Python PowerShell or similar)
- Proven experience withautomation and DevOps tooling(Ansible Terraform CI/CD Git)
- Experience working withAzure 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.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
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