Site Reliability Engineer

Roke; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Roke, a leading technology & engineering company, seeks an SRE Engineer to maintain operational integrity in the National Security domain. You'll provide technical leadership, work closely with customers, and ensure the successful delivery of software rollouts. Based in Manchester, this role offers an exciting opportunity in a dynamic tech community to support mission-critical services for national safety.

Qualifications

• Experience operating in a SRE / DevOps environment.
• Comfortable embedding with customers in secure environments.
• Ability to maintain operational integrity of mission critical services.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership while ensuring successful delivery of software rollouts.
• Develop and deploy code while following best DevOps / SRE practices.
• Catch issues early and maintain operational integrity of services.

Skills

Web Services

Service Improvement

Fault Finding

Problem Solving

DevOps

CI/CD

Containerisation

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Jenkins

Gitlab

Kubernetes

Helm

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

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Roke is a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Intelligence.

National Security Business
Be part of a growing and highly trusted supplier into the NS domain working to deliver mission critical solutions helping to keep the nation safe, secure and prosperous.

Working on leading edge technology solutions including AI/DS, Cyber, Cloud, DevOps/SRE, Platform Engineering

We have secured long term work, across the full spectrum, on the latest framework with the client, which provides the springboard for our ongoing growth and development in this domain, so join us on what will be an incredible growth journey.

Role
As a SRE Engineer, within our National Security Business, you thrive on providing technical leadership; working closely and embedding with customers to maintain the operational integrity of mission critical services in a National Security environment.

You’re a SRE Engineer that provides technical leadership and is comfortable with high level responsibility. You won’t be leading a team that delivers simple add-ons to multiple vendors; you’ll be working directly with customers to provide ensure successful delivery of software rollouts that enable the nations safety.

As our next SRE Engineer, you’ll operate with customer availability as a priority; catching issues early and ensuring continued operational integrity of services that are strategically important to the nation. Whilst developing and deploying code, you’ll ensure best DevOps / SRE practices are followed.

The Key Requirements

• Willing to embed with customers in secure environments on a regular basis
• Experience of Web Services, Service Improvement, fault finding & problem solving.
• Experience operating in a SRE / DevOps environment, utilising pipeline tools such as Jenkins or Gitlab for CI/CD
• Experience deploying rollouts with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm or Docker
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code technologies (IaC) such as Ansible or Terraform

Built on over a 60 year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

Where you’ll work…

Manchester - You’ll find our Manchester site located in the heart of the City; Europe’s fastest growing tech hub. You’ll become a key part of Roke’s growing local tech community as we support the Government levelling up agenda. There is easy, local access to our client community with great transport links and nearby local parking.

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance.

The Next Step...

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.