£550 Per day
Outside
Undetermined
Edinburgh
Summary: The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role involves transitioning a public sector organization from on-premise systems to cloud-based services. The position requires collaboration within an agile team to enhance platform resilience, automation, and observability using a modern tech stack. Key responsibilities include ensuring service continuity and disaster recovery readiness. The role demands strong technical expertise in Unix/Linux, automation, containerization, and cloud services, particularly AWS.
Key Responsibilities:
- Enhance platform resilience, automation, and observability.
- Ensure service continuity and disaster recovery readiness.
- Work with a modern tech stack including RHEL, Ansible, Oracle, AWS, and container platforms.
- Collaborate within an agile team environment.
Key Skills:
- Strong Unix/Linux expertise, particularly with RHEL 7/8/9 and Red Hat Satellite.
- Automation skills, including Ansible, shell scripting (Bash/Perl), and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Containerisation experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- CI/CD knowledge, including pipeline configuration and Git-based workflows.
- Monitoring and observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Nagios.
- Cloud proficiency, especially with AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, NLB) and automation tools like Terraform or CDK.
- Desirable skills include experience with MongoDB, Python, CommVault, Oracle virtualisation (KVM/LVM), and AWS EKS.
Salary (Rate): £550 per day
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Your new company and role
A leading public sector organisation is undergoing a major shift from on-premise systems to cloud-based services. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you’ll join a collaborative, agile team focused on enhancing platform resilience, automation, and observability.
You’ll work across a modern tech stack, including RHEL, Ansible, Oracle, AWS, and container platforms like OpenShift and Kubernetes, playing a key role in ensuring service continuity and disaster recovery readiness.
What you'll need to succeed
To thrive in this role, you’ll bring:
- Strong Unix/Linux expertise, particularly with RHEL 7/8/9 and Red Hat Satellite.
- Automation skills, including Ansible, shell scripting (Bash/Perl), and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Containerisation experience, with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- CI/CD knowledge, including pipeline configuration and Git-based workflows.
- Monitoring and observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Nagios.
- Cloud proficiency, especially with AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, NLB) and automation tools like Terraform or CDK.
- Desirable skills include experience with MongoDB, Python, CommVault, Oracle virtualisation (KVM/LVM), and AWS EKS.
What you need to do now
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