Site Reliability Engineer; SRE

Overview

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - DV & NPPV3 Cleared – £600/day Inside IR35 – 8‑month Contract – Onsite (London) – SCC Flex Contract

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with active DV & NPPV3 clearance to support a secure, mission‑critical environment. This role requires strong technical leadership across reliability engineering, automation, monitoring, and operational support within a high‑security, onsite setting.

• Maintain and improve the reliability, performance, and availability of critical services.
• Implement automation across infrastructure, deployments, and monitoring to reduce operational toil.
• Support incident response, troubleshooting, and root‑cause analysis.
• Strengthen observability using modern tooling (logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting).
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and service resilience.
• Work closely with engineering, operations, and security teams to ensure compliant, stable operations.
• Produce documentation, runbooks, and operational handover materials.
• Ensure all activity aligns with security, compliance, and audit requirements for DV/NPPV3 environments.

• Active DV & NPPV3 clearance
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• Strong experience in SRE, platform engineering, or advanced systems engineering roles.
• Hands‑on skills in automation, scripting, and tooling (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, Power Shell).
• Experience with monitoring/observability platforms (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Git Lab CI, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops).
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes desirable).
• Strong troubleshooting, incident‑response, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience working within secure, regulated, or government environments.

If you’re a DV & NPPV3 cleared Site Reliability Engineer ready to support and enhance a mission‑critical, high‑security environment,
apply now with your CV. Professional references required.

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