Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Location: London / Sheffield (Hybrid – 10 days per month onsite)

Contract: 6 months

The Role

We are seeking a skilled Open Shift Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a team. You need to have good hands-on experience on SRE with Open Shift virtualisation and Kubernetes.

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of Open Shift-based Virtual/container platforms and services with a focus on automation.
• Work and collaborate across teams, such as Applications, Hardware, and Network.
• Develop systems, primarily in Shell scripting, YAML, Ruby, Python, and Go language, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation.
• Establish and enforce SRE best practices through platform constraints and high-fidelity system modeling.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

• Hands-on experience with Open Shift virtualisation and Kubernetes administration.
• Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains.
• Experience managing a production service with Red Hat, Windows, and ESXi.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting & observability tools (e.g., Otel, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk etc.).
• Proficiency in scripting languages Python, Shell, Go Lang, Terraform etc.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab CI).
• Understanding containerization (Docker) and microservices architecture.
• Ansible – Configuration Management and Deployment.
• Proven experience in Compute, Open Shift, Kubernetes, Hypervisors, Storage, Windows, Networks, and Linux.
• Accountability for the control and compliance of the engineering process.
• Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge specialist technologies and practices within the domain.
• Promote development of engineers through coaching and mentoring.
• Consult as required in other areas to assist and provide a different perspective to programmes or projects that require it.
• Good problem-solving and communication skills.