Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Defence National Security
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Job Location:
Farnborough - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Defence / National Security
Location: Farnborough
Salary: 75k
Full Time (3 days a week onsite)
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join a team working in defence and national security environments. This is a hands-on role focused on building secure automated and highly reliable platforms combining engineering design and DevOps principles.
Youll work closely with platform engineers infrastructure teams operational stakeholders and project managers to take requirements from early design and proof-of-concept through to production. This role is ideal for someone curious detail-oriented and comfortable in complex regulated environments with a passion for automation resilience and secure-by-design infrastructure.
The Role:
- 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
- Good knowledge of Linux administration
- Skilled in scripting: Bash Python PowerShell or similar
- Experienced with DevOps/automation tools: Ansible Terraform CI/CD Git
- Familiar with cloud platforms especially Azure
- Knowledge of configuration management (e.g. DSC)
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Willingness to learn new technologies
- Able to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
Desirable experience:
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform ARM templates
- Knowledge of security best practices
- Configuration as Code: DSC Ansible or similar
- Linux (Ubuntu RHEL/CentOS) and Windows Server administration
- Containerisation & orchestration: Docker Kubernetes
- Version control and configuration management: Git/GitLab
- Project and issue tracking tools: JIRA or similar
- Cloud platforms: Azure / Azure Stack Hub
- Monitoring and alerting: Nagios Splunk or similar
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- Experience with large-scale system deployment
- Advocate for DevOps and Agile practices
- Able to work closely with teams and customers
Benefits:
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
UK Security Clearance
Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment you must be a UK sole national and either have or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance.
To apply or find out more information on the role please send your CV to
Required Experience:
IC
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