EDV cleared Reliability Engineer

DV Site Reliability Engineer
Cheltenham (Hybrid – 3–4 days onsite)
Contract (Outside IR35) or Permanent
£500–£650 per day (contract) | Competitive perm salary
Active DV clearance required - Intelligence

We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support and scale mission-critical platforms used across high-profile government environments.

• Improve reliability and performance across multiple services
• Automate operational tasks and reduce alert noise
• Enhance monitoring and observability to prevent incidents
• Support development and test environments
• Contribute to infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform improvements
• Participate in an on-call rota when required

• Terraform and infrastructure automation (Ansible/Chef or similar)
• Containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, etc.)
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins or similar)
• Monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Influx
  
  DB)
• Messaging systems (Rabbit
  
  MQ / AMQP)
• Linux administration & scripting
• AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
• Strong understanding of networking and security fundamentals

• Coding experience (Java, Go, Python)
• Secure or cross-domain system experience
• Service management or operations background
• Azure exposure