Site Reliability Engineer

Proactive Appointments; Tewkesbury2; On-site; GBP 8,266,000 - 13,087,000; Full time

Job summary

Proactive Appointments is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer with live UKIC DV clearance for an initial 6-month contract, outside IR35. Role is on-site in Gloucester, four days a week.

You will operate and improve CI/CD pipelines, manage configuration tooling, and ensure robust monitoring and security across cloud services. Key skills include Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, Ansible/Chef, and MQ/RabbitMQ integration, with strong Linux scripting and SQL knowledge.

Qualifications

• Must hold live UKIC DV clearance.
• Modern configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef or similar).
• Experience with Terraform.
• Docker containers & container orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift/Docker Swarm).
• CI/CD tooling experience (Jenkins or similar).
• Experience with monitoring tools (InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Event-driven integration with MQ (RabbitMQ or AMQP).
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases.
• Linux CLI, admin tasks and shell scripting.
• Basic knowledge of network security protocols.
• Experience with cloud hosting services (AWS EC2/RDS/S3/Lambda).

Skills

DV clearance

Config management

Terraform

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Monitoring tools

RabbitMQ/AMQP

SQL

Linux scripting

Network security

AWS Cloud

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker Swarm

Jenkins

InfluxDB

Prometheus

Grafana

RabbitMQ

AWS

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer - DV Cleared

Our client is urgently looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join their team on a contract basis, initially for 6 months with a view to extend.

Please note, the role is OUTSIDE of IR35. You must hold live UKIC DV. The role is on-site 4 days per week in Gloucester.

Site Reliability Engineer - Key Skills:

• Must hold a live UKIC DV
• Modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar)
• Experience working with Terraform
• Docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm)
• Using and maintaining CI/CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar)
• Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana.
• Event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution)
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Linux command line, administration and Shell Scripting
• Working knowledge of network security protocols
• Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)

Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.