Job Description

Site Reliability Engineer
Southampton
PCD330016

Overview

Salary: Up to £1,000pd (Inside IR35)
Employment: Contract

Job Description
The organisation is partnering with a long-standing client in the data and analytics space, an organisation known for its technical excellence, collaborative culture, and meaningful impact across sectors. They’re scaling their SRE function and looking for a seasoned engineer to join a high-performing team delivering internal applications that power critical operations.
This is a 6-month contract (with strong potential to extend), starting ASAP. You will be based 2 days per week in either Southampton or Sutton, whichever suits you best. Most of the SREs sit in Southampton, so if you enjoy bouncing ideas off peers in person, that is the spot.

What you bring:

Deep open-source operating system expertise and fluency in at least one high-level programming language (Python preferred)
Strong experience with public cloud platform (VPCs, EC2, managed container service/managed container orchestration service, managed relational database service, object storage service, etc.)
Solid understanding of database systems (relational database, relational database)
IaC mastery (infrastructure automation tooling, infrastructure automation tooling, configuration automation tooling)
Passion for monitoring and observability (monitoring platform, search and monitoring platform, incident management platform, etc.)
Familiarity with configuration management tools (configuration management tool, etc.)
version control system, containerisation platform, and scripting skills (bash or similar)
A collaborative mindset and the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly

Bonus points for:
Agile delivery experience
Security the organisation know-how
Ability to explain complex issues to non-technical audiences
Experience with scalable, cloud-native applications
This is a brilliant opportunity to work with a forward-thinking tech team that values autonomy, innovation, and impact. If you are an SRE who thrives in fast-paced environments and loves solving complex problems, I would love to hear from you. apply to learn more

What You Will Be Doing

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement and optimise internal applications
Diagnosing complex system performance issues and refining monitoring/reporting
Championing architectural best practices across the teams
Driving innovation and continuous improvement in infrastructure and tooling
Working hands-on with IaaS, CI/CD pipelines, and containerised environments