Site Reliability Engineer

Contract: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: EU base with EU travel required 2-3 times per year (4-8 weeks at a time)

Rate: circa €500-550 per day (B2B contract). Travel expensed

Start: ASAP

Duration: 12 months

Reference: 20151

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-performing engineering team on a long-term contract project. This contract is hybrid working remotely and then on site for periods of time during deployments with EU travel required 2-3 times per year, for up to 8 weeks at a time.

You will have an EU passport or willing to work around the EU work restrictions as a British passport holder.

The engineer will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of Kubernetes-based platforms and supporting infrastructure in an air-gapped technical environment.

Scope:

• Design, operate, and maintain highly available and scalable Kubernetes environments
• Ensure platform reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Implement and maintain secure networking, PKI, and service mesh solutions
• Troubleshoot complex issues across Linux, Windows, networking, and hardware layers
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system resilience and operational maturity
• Support infrastructure automation and observability initiatives

Required Skills & Experience (Must Have)

• Kubernetes - strong hands-on experience operating production clusters in on-prem environment
• Networking - deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, and network troubleshooting
• Linux - strong administration and troubleshooting skills
• Windows (Basics) - working knowledge of Windows systems
• PKI - certificates, TLS, and secure communications
• Hardware - understanding of server hardware and physical infrastructure
• (Service Mesh) - traffic management, security, and observability

Nice to Have

• Windows (Advanced) - in-depth administration and troubleshooting
• Ansible - configuration management and automation
• Prometheus - monitoring and alerting solutions

Optional/Beneficial Experience

• Storage Technologies & Hardware - enterprise storage systems and concepts
• Firewall Hardware - deployment and operational experience
• Cilium - eBPF-based networking and security
• Grafana/Loki - metrics visualization and log aggregation
• Virtualization in Kubernetes - running or integrating virtualized workloads within Kubernetes environments

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