Site Reliability Engineer

Venn Group; England; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading group in technology services is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Cheltenham. The role, which offers both contract and permanent positions, requires active DV clearance and involves improving the reliability and performance of multiple services. Key responsibilities include automating operational tasks, enhancing monitoring, and supporting development environments. Competitive compensation is offered, with a salary range of £500–650 per day for contract and competitive salaries for permanent positions.

Qualifications

• Active DV clearance required.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools.
• Strong Linux and AWS expertise.

Responsibilities

• Improve reliability and performance across multiple services.
• Automate operational tasks and reduce alert noise.
• Enhance monitoring and observability to prevent incidents.
• Support development and test environments.
• Contribute to infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform improvements.
• Participate in an on-call rota when required.

Skills

Terraform and infrastructure automation

Containers & orchestration

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring & observability

Messaging systems

Linux administration & scripting

AWS experience

Strong understanding of networking and security

Job description

Overview

eDV Site Reliability Engineer – Cheltenham (Hybrid 3–4 days onsite). Contract (Outside IR35) or Permanent. £500–£650 per day (contract) | Competitive perm salary. Active DV clearance required - Intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Improve reliability and performance across multiple services
• Automate operational Tasks and reduce alert noise
• Enhance monitoring and observability to prevent incidents
• Support development and test environments
• Contribute to infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform improvements
• Participate in an on-call rota when required

Essential Skills

• Terraform and infrastructure automation (Ansible/Chef or similar)
• Containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins or similar)
• Monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB)
• Messaging systems (RabbitMQ / AMQP)
• Linux administration & scripting
• AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
• Strong understanding of networking and security fundamentals

Nice to Have

• Coding experience (Java, Go, Python)
• Secure or cross-domain system experience
• Service management or operations background
• Azure exposure