Linux Site Reliability Engineer

Contract: Site Reliability Engineer (Linux Administration & Server Hardware)

Location: Glasgow (hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Duration: 6 months
Day Rate: Negotiable (Inside IR35 via umbrella solution)

Reference: 20460

We are looking for an experienced Linux Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-performing infrastructure support team focused on maintaining and improving critical platform reliability within a large-scale enterprise environment.

This position will focus on resolving hardware and platform-related incidents escalated from the L3 support team. The successful candidate will have strong Linux systems expertise and, hands-on physical server troubleshooting experience, and a proactive approach to operational improvement, automation, and incident reduction.

Essential Skills / Requirements

• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills (process, networking basics, logs,
• package/service management).
• Solid understanding of server hardware and peripherals (disks, RAID/HBA, NICs,
• firmware) and how failures present at OS level.
• Experience with out-of-band management / lights-out technologies (e.g., iDRAC, iLO,
• IPMI/Redfish) for remote troubleshooting and recovery.
• Proven ability to own incidents end-to-end: triage, identify mitigations/workarounds,
• coordinate with L3/engineering, communicate status, and drive to resolution.
• Understanding of SRE operational practices and metrics (e.g., SLO/SLI concepts, error
• budgets, MTTD/MTTR) and a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal): clear incident updates,
• customer/stakeholder management, and effective escalation and handoffs.
• Strong documentation skills: writing clear runbooks/procedures, contributing to knowledge
• bases, and participating in post-incident reviews/root cause analysis.

Nice to Have / Desired Skills

• Scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python) to build small tools, checks, and
• workflow automation that reduce toil.
• Familiarity with virtualization and containerization concepts/operations (e.g.,
• VMware/KVM, Docker, Kubernetes) and using automation to support these environments.
• Experience with monitoring/observability and alerting workflows (dashboards, log

analysis, alert tuning) and translating signals into actionable response steps

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