Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (DV, NPPV3 cleared) – £600/day – Inside IR35 – 12 Month Contract – Birmingham – SCC Flex Contract

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (DV, NPPV3 cleared) to support highly secure, business‐critical systems in Birmingham, working across Linux environments, cloud and on‐prem infrastructure, container platforms (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines and enterprise monitoring tools.

Your responsibilities as the Site Reliability Engineer (DV, NPPV3 cleared):

• Maintain and improve the reliability, availability, scalability and performance of critical production systems.
• Design, implement and optimise monitoring, alerting and observability solutions.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis and post‐incident reviews in line with SRE best practices.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support safe, repeatable deployments.
• Automate operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system stability.
• Work closely with DevOps, Platform, Security and Development teams in a highly regulated environment.
• Support capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Produce and maintain clear technical documentation and operational runbooks.

As a successful Site Reliability Engineer (DV, NPPV3 cleared), you will have:

• Proven experience working as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Active DV clearance and NPPV3 clearance (both essential).
• Strong Linux system administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience with cloud and platform technologies such as AWS, Azure or private cloud platforms.
• Hands‐on experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / OpenSearch, Splunk or Datadog.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools including Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, PowerShell or Go.
• Experience supporting CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of networking, security principles and access controls in secure environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex, distributed systems under pressure.

If you are a Site Reliability Engineer (DV, NPPV3 cleared) looking for a high-impact contract in a secure Birmingham-based environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply today — professional references required.

NOTE: At SCC, we take the privacy and security of your information very seriously. Any information we hold will be handled in accordance with current data protection legislation. Upon submitting your application, SCC will process your information in line with our privacy policy, which can be found on our website under Legal Privacy Notice Flexible Resourcing.