DV-Cleared Site Reliability Engineer (Onsite London)

JAM Recruitment Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm seeks a Site Reliability Engineer in London for a 12-month contract. The ideal candidate must hold live DV clearance and will work on minimizing manual effort, driving automation, and ensuring system performance and availability. This role allows for proactive engagement with development teams and focuses on enhancing critical application services. If you're passionate about reliability and automation in a national security context, apply now!

Benefits

Ongoing training and professional development

Work on impactful projects

Qualifications

• Must hold live and transferrable DV Clearance.
• Experience in automation and reliability engineering.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain essential services behind critical applications.
• Participate in a 24/7 on‑call rota (1 week in 5).
• Proactively enhance system availability, performance, and resilience.
• Develop tools to automate repetitive tasks.
• Collaborate with development teams on best practices.
• Deploy and manage monitoring systems.

Skills

Software development in web technologies or OOP (e.g., Python, Java, etc.)

Database tech: Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Proficient with Linux/Windows command line (Bash, PowerShell)

Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk

Agile working and tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence)

Diagnosing and resolving complex system issues

ITIL knowledge or exposure to IT service operations

Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Awareness of modern tech trends and tooling

Job description

A leading recruitment firm seeks a Site Reliability Engineer in London for a 12-month contract. The ideal candidate must hold live DV clearance and will work on minimizing manual effort, driving automation, and ensuring system performance and availability. This role allows for proactive engagement with development teams and focuses on enhancing critical application services. If you're passionate about reliability and automation in a national security context, apply now!