Site Reliability Engineer - Sutton / Southampton

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Sutton / Southampton (Either office 2 x per week)
Salary/Rate: Up to £560 per day (Inside IR35)
Start Date: December 2025
Job Type: 6-month contract

Company Introduction

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with AWS, Linux, Docker, IaC (Terraform) and Monitoring (Grafana) experience to join our client, a global analytics organisation based in Southampton / Sutton (Working on-site twice a week).

*Interviews will be held face to face in Sutton or Southampton. If applying you MUST be able to attend.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

· Working as part of a cross-functional team to best implement internal applications
· Diagnose complex system performance problems
· Work closely within cross-functional teams to refine system monitoring and reporting
· Identify and implement best practices by collaborating with other SREs and SRE teams
· Understand Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and its implementation methods.
· Identify and implement architectural best practices by collaborating with multiple teams and software engineers
· Diagnose complex system problems using dumps, traces, or other diagnostics aids.
· Manage and encourage new ideas from staff to foster improvements and innovation

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

· Bachelor's degree in computer science, math or equivalent experience.
· In-depth technical knowledge of Linux
· Good understanding of at least one high-level programming language ie Python
· In-depth knowledge of one or more database systems such as Postgres, SQL Server
· Experience in designing, building, and maintaining high-performance, highly available production hosting environments, preferably using AWS (VPCs, security groups, RDS, S3, EC2, ECS, EKS)
· Understanding of security engineering and security best practices
· Good knowledge of at least one high-level scripting language, such as bash
· Advanced knowledge of configuration management tools, such as puppet, etc.
· Advanced knowledge of best practices and tooling for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
· Git
· Containerisation (Docker) on Linux
· Advanced knowledge of at least one IaC tool such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible
· A love of monitoring and experience in tooling such as Grafana, Elastic, StatusCake, PagerDuty
· Strong skills in achieving business objectives and goals

Desirable Skills/Experience:
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• Agile delivery
• Thorough understanding of major system components used in completing assigned tasks (i.e Linux, Networking, Storage or Databases).
• Knowledge of security tooling and security best practice
• Ability to clearly explain (written, and orally) technical issues to a non-technical audience
• Ability to administer scalable, cloud-native applications

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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