Hays are now looking for a Site Reliability Engineer for one of our local clients.

• 2-3 days a week in Herefordshire

• Circa £450 per day, Outside IR35

• 6 month initial contract

• Must currently be SC or DV Cleared
  
  

• Support the design, operation and continuous improvement of infrastructure across client environments
• Work with software engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability and performance of client‑owned services
• Partner with operational and support teams to automate manual work and reduce operational toil
• Improve monitoring, alerting and observability to identify and resolve issues before they impact end users
• Support client development and test environments to enable consistent, high‑quality delivery
• Contribute to identifying capacity, performance and reliability risks and driving remediation activities
• Evaluate tools, platforms and approaches to support informed technical decisions
• Develop a strong understanding of differing client environments, platforms and delivery models

• Strong experience with configuration management tools, with Ansible required (Chef or similar beneficial)
• Experience defining and managing infrastructure using Terraform
• Hands-on experience with container technologies and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm)
• Experience building, operating or supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or equivalent
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana or InfluxDB
• Exposure to event‑driven or message‑based architectures (e.g. RabbitMQ or other AMQP solutions)
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Confident working in Linux environments, including administration and shell scripting
• Knowledge of networking concepts and security protocols
• Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally including compute, storage, databases and serverless services

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or send a copy to jonathan.davies1@hays.com now