Site Reliability Engineer
629797141535
£550 Per Day
Full Time
Contract
Edinburgh, Midlothian
IT
Posted 1 day ago
Expires In 28 Days
Job Description
📍 Edinburgh | Hybrid Working
🕒 37 hours per week | Start ASAP
💷 £550/day (Outside IR35)
Are you a skilled Site Reliability Engineer with strong UNIX/Linux expertise and a passion for automation and infrastructure optimisation? Our client is looking for an experienced SRE to join a forward-thinking team on a 6-month contract, with the potential for extension. This role offers hybrid working, with a base in Edinburgh.
You'll play a key role in supporting the migration to RHEL 8/9, driving automation, and enhancing observability, performance, and resilience across infrastructure and services.
Key Responsibilities
- Support deployment and migration of services to RHEL 8/9
- Develop and enhance automation for disaster recovery activities
- Provide support for existing and new UNIX infrastructure
- Optimise existing systems and services for better performance and efficiency
- Deploy and support Ansible Automation Platform
- Manage and support Oracle Database 19c on Oracle Linux using KVM
- Maintain logging and observability stacks, including time-series databases
- Promote SLO/SLI tracking and measurement
- Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure
- Engage with external teams, providing guidance on platform/service consumption
Key Skills & Experience Required
✅ RHEL 7/8/9 system administration✅ Red Hat Satellite administration
✅ Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
✅ Scripting skills – Bash, Perl
✅ Experience with HAProxy, keepalived, and other load balancing tools
✅ Expertise in Docker, container runtimes, and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
✅ Experience in CI/CD environments – Git, Git runners, Ansible Automation Platform
✅ Monitoring & Observability:
- Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
- Time Series Databases – InfluxDB
- Full stack admin: TICK, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Fluentd
If you're a proactive and technically strong SRE looking to make a real impact, apply now to start immediately.
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