Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid Defence Cloud

fortice

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 43,000 - 83,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Fortice is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a Defence-focused programme in London. You will lead efforts to relocate data to a new cloud platform and ensure reliable, scalable services.

The role is hybrid with on-site in Central London about two days per month, spanning operations and automation equally. You'll benefit from training, certifications, and opportunities across global client projects.

Qualifications

Active UK Government Security Clearance, or willing to be sponsored.
Experience maintaining availability of critical services using monitoring and alerting solutions.
Understanding of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
Demonstrated knowledge of AWS Console/CLI, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Experience with privileged access management processes and technologies.
Good understanding of container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes) and observability services.
Ability to troubleshoot and debug issues across cloud environments.

Responsibilities

Aligned to a Defence-related project, leading a team to relocate data to a new cloud platform.
Hybrid setup with on-site presence in Central London around two days per month.
Split time roughly 50% operations-focused and 50% automation-focused.
Improve services using a metrics-driven approach.
Work within an agile delivery team.
Deliver effective IT operational processes across a key defence programme.
Set up systems builds and dashboards.
Contribute to a programme with real purpose.