Hybrid Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud & Automation

Hackajob Ltd; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence in Gloucester (with a Manchester-based role) is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to support essential services for national security projects, focusing on availability, performance and resilience.

You will automate toil, work with product teams to implement best practices, and participate in the wider DevOps/SRE community. Hybrid/ Flexible work options are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development with Java and web technologies (JavaScript/HTML).
• Familiarity with databases such as Elastic and MongoDB.
• Experience with Linux and Windows command lines (Bash/PowerShell).
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/OpenStack).
• Use of deployment tools (Chef/Puppet).
• Expertise in monitoring large systems (ELK).
• Experience in Agile/Scrum with Jira.
• Diagnosing and troubleshooting application issues and outages.
• Strong troubleshooting across stack levels.
• Understanding ITIL terminology.
• Experience with container management and microservices (Docker).
• Experience extending and improving Open Source Software.
• Familiarity with automation test frameworks (Selenium).
• Awareness of technology trends to adopt cutting-edge tools.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain essential services that underpin core mission applications, improving availability, performance and stability.
• Automate repetitive tasks and seek innovative solutions to problems.
• Collaborate with product teams and advise on best practices to design and build systems.
• Ensure support work stays under 50% of time; route excess support to product teams.
• Instrument applications with monitoring and use data to drive daily improvements.
• Understand the software-infrastructure relationship to optimize the deployed infrastructure.
• Participate in the wider DevOps/SRE community within the organisation.

Skills

Java

JavaScript

Linux

Windows

Agile Scrum

ITIL

Selenium

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Open Source

Tools

Chef

Puppet

JIRA

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenStack

ELK

Bash

PowerShell

AWS

Azure

Job description

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence in Gloucester (with a Manchester-based role) is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to support essential services for national security projects, focusing on availability, performance and resilience.

You will automate toil, work with product teams to implement best practices, and participate in the wider DevOps/SRE community. Hybrid/ Flexible work options are offered.