Linux Site Reliability Engineer

Linux Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Contract

📍 Glasgow

💷 £550 per day

📅 3 days per week onsite

📄 Inside IR35

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, hands-on server troubleshooting experience, and a proactive approach to operational improvement, automation, and incident reduction.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve Linux infrastructure and hardware-related incidents
• Perform advanced Linux systems administration and troubleshooting
• Support remote server recovery and diagnostics using out-of-band management technologies
• Manage incidents end-to-end, including triage, mitigation, escalation, communication, and resolution
• Create and maintain operational runbooks and technical documentation
• Identify recurring issues and implement improvements to reduce MTTD and MTTR
• Work closely with engineering and operations teams to improve system reliability and resilience
• Participate in post-incident reviews and root cause analysis

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience
• Knowledge of server hardware including disks, RAID/HBA, NICs, and firmware
• Experience with iDRAC, iLO, IPMI, Redfish, or similar remote management tools
• Proven experience supporting production infrastructure environments
• Understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, SLIs, MTTD, and MTTR
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent documentation and process improvement experience

Desirable Skills

• Scripting and automation experience with Bash or Python
• Familiarity with VMware, KVM, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms