Site Reliability Engineer

Fuel Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology organisation is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their infrastructure and automation capabilities. This role focuses on designing and optimizing secure, resilient platforms. Responsibilities include managing core systems, developing automation tooling, and ensuring compliance through security risk assessments. Ideal candidates will have strong Linux and Windows OS experience, scripting skills, and familiarity with IaC tools like Ansible and Terraform. This position offers a hybrid work model, requiring three days on-site in the UK.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux and Windows OS administration experience.
• Scripting capability in Bash, Python, PHP, or PowerShell.
• Experience with automation and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver, upgrade, and maintain core platforms and automation.
• Develop monitoring and management tooling for observability.
• Collaborate with teams to design and harden resilient platforms.

Skills

Linux OS administration

Windows OS administration

Scripting (Bash, Python, PHP, PowerShell)

Automation with Ansible

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Cloud environments (Azure)

Problem-solving

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Nagios

Splunk

Job description

Overview

Fuel Recruitment is working with a leading technology organisation that is expanding its infrastructure and automation capability. They are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help design, deploy and optimise secure, resilient platforms across internal and customer environments. The role is focused on automation, observability and taking new solutions from proof-of-concept through to full production. This position is offered on a hybrid basis, with three days per week on-site.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver, upgrade and maintain core platforms, systems and automation.
• Develop and support monitoring and management tooling to ensure strong observability.
• Collaborate with engineers, developers and operations teams to design and harden resilient platforms.
• Architect, design and deploy proof-of-concepts and introduce new technologies into production.
• Conduct security risk and vulnerability assessments, ensuring systems are hardened and compliant.
• Build and maintain automation tooling using modern SRE and DevOps practices.
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues across Linux, containers, IaC and related technologies.
• Produce and maintain high-quality documentation and support the wider team.

Key Skills/Experience

• Strong Linux and Windows OS administration experience (eg, Ubuntu).
• Scripting capability in Bash, Python, PHP or PowerShell.
• Experience with automation and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and Git.
• Experience working with Azure or similar cloud environments.
• Understanding of Desired State Configuration and broader IaC principles.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work across multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with IaC development life cycles and best practices.
• Awareness of security best practices and secure configuration.
• DSC/Ansible, ARM Templates or Terraform experience.
• Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows Server (2019/2022).
• Experience with COTS installation, configuration and automation.
• Docker/Podman and Kubernetes or Swarm orchestration.
• GitLab, JIRA and Azure/Azure Stack Hub.
• Monitoring tools such as Nagios or Splunk.
• Strong documentation skills (eg, Confluence).
• Experience supporting large-scale platforms and advocating SRE/DevOps principles.
• Understanding of Agile working practices.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with project managers, support teams and customers.

Security Clearance

Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be UK sole nationals and eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.