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!