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eDV Site reliability Engineer
- Location Gloucestershire
- Job type Contract
- Salary £550 - 650 per day + Outside IR35
- Discipline Defence & Security
- Reference J93352
eDV Site Reliability Engineer x2 roles
Cheltenham (Hybrid – 3–4 days onsite)
Contract (Outside IR35) or Permanent
£500–£650 per day (contract) | Competitive perm salary
Active DV clearance required - Intelligence
Overview
We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support and scale mission-critical platforms used across high-profile government environments.
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Key Responsibilities
• Improve reliability and performance across multiple services
• Automate operational tasks and reduce alert noise
• Enhance monitoring and observability to prevent incidents
• Support development and test environments
• Contribute to infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform improvements
• Participate in an on-call rota when required
Essential Skills
• Terraform and infrastructure automation (Ansible/Chef or similar)
• Containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins or similar)
• Monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB)
• Messaging systems (RabbitMQ / AMQP)
• Linux administration & scripting
• AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
• Strong understanding of networking and security fundamentals
Nice to Have
• Coding experience (Java, Go, Python)
• Secure or cross-domain system experience
• Service management or operations background
• Azure exposure