Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

Pimento Connection Ltd; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Option scheme

Hybrid Working

Professional Development

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Pimento Connection Ltd is seeking a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer to join our delivery teams. You will design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure underpinning critical public-sector services.

You will merge your DevOps, cloud engineering, and automation expertise with a focus on observability, security, and scalable architectures. Join a team that solves complex infra challenges and embeds secure-by-design practices across delivery environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation).
• Working knowledge of event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar).
• Experience managing and tuning databases (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with Keycloak or equivalent IdAM platforms.
• Strong scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools for observability.
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure preferred).
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests.
• Build and manage event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Operate and maintain databases and data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB.
• Configure and support IdAM solutions such as Keycloak.
• Monitor system health with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry.
• Champion DevSecOps practices, embedding security and compliance into delivery.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery processes to improve reliability.
• Support development teams with environment configuration, secrets management, and container orchestration.
• Participate in incident management and root-cause analysis to improve resilience.
• Contribute to internal platform frameworks, templates, and automation accelerators.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

IdAM Keycloak

Prometheus

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Kafka

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Keycloak

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

We're looking for a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing platform and delivery teams. You'll help design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and performant infrastructure that underpins critical public-sector services.

You'll combine your background in DevOps, cloud engineering, and automation with a focus on reliability, observability, and scalability. You'll also work with event driven technologies, identity and access management, and data platforms, ensuring our orchestration solutions are resilient, secure, and future-ready.

This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure and automation challenges, automating everything, and shaping secure-by-design delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure preferred)
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests
• Build and manage event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or similar messaging systems
• Operate and maintain databases and data platforms such as PostgreSQL,Elasticsearch, and MongoDB
• Configure and support identity and access management (IdAM) solutions such as Keycloak
• Monitor system health, performance, and capacity using modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
• Champion DevSecOps practices, embedding security and compliance into every stage of delivery
• Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery processes to improve reliability and reduce manual toil
• Support development teams with environment configuration, secrets management, and container orchestration
• Participate in incident management and root-cause analysis to continuously improve system resilience
• Contribute to internal platform frameworks, templates, and automation accelerators

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering roles
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP environments
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation)
• Working knowledge of event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)
• Experience managing and tuning databases (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with Keycloak or equivalent identity and access management (IdAM) platforms
• Strong scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or Go preferred)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools for observability
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security controls
• Collaborative, pragmatic, and proactive problem solver
• Must be eligible and prepared to go through SC Security Clearance

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience operating production workloads in the UK public sector or regulated environments
• Familiarity with Camunda or other process orchestration platforms
• Experience implementing DevSecOps frameworks or security automation tools
• Understanding of zero-trust networking and secure-by-design principles
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio, Linkerd)
• Exposure to agentic AI or workflow automation environments
• Holds UK security clearance (SC, DV, eDV)

What's on Offer

• The company option scheme gives our employees a stake in the organisation they're building
• Meaningful missions. Tackle high-impact public-sector problems that improve services millions rely on.
• Hybrid Working.Flexible working between our London office, client offices and your home location.
• Outputs over optics. We focus on what gets delivered, not hours online.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with founders. Learn from experienced practitioners in a nurturing, hands-on environment.
• Shape the organisation. your fingerprints will be on the company as it grows.
• Autonomy by default. We empower our people to do what's needed.
• Human > corporate. Sociable, low-ego, dynamic engagements. No big-firm stiffness or needless bureaucracy.
• Professional Development. Our customer invests in their people through training and certifications.