Site Reliability Engineer

Role: Site Reliability EngineerLocation: London or Manchester (2 days per week on-site + monthly team days rotating between locations)Duration: 6 monthsRate: £675 per day (Inside IR35)Security Clearance: Must hold active SC clearance due to project timingsTeam Size: Core team of 10 within a wider programme of 60+ and expandingExperience Level: 4+ years

We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support a major central government programme, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical digital services. You'll help shape modern cloud infrastructure and enable engineering teams to deliver secure and resilient platforms.

Technical Skills

• AWS Services: Strong proficiency in AWS infrastructure (priority over Python)

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven experience designing and implementing IaC solutions

• CI/CD Pipelines: Strong background in building and maintaining automated delivery pipelines

• Python: Proficiency in scripting and automation

• Containerisation: Experience working with containerised environments

• Linux: Excellent Linux system administration skills

Leadership & Approach

• Technical Direction: Capable of providing technical leadership and mentoring without direct line management responsibilities

• System Design: Skilled in designing and implementing efficient, high-performing systems

• Reliability & Scalability: Focused on delivering robust, maintainable, and secure infrastructure solutions

• Collaboration: Comfortable working within cross-functional teams and engaging stakeholders across central government

• Building and maintaining AWS-based infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code

• Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines to support development and deployment

• Providing technical direction and guidance to engineers

• Embedding site reliability principles, including monitoring, alerting, and automation

• Supporting the scaling of a large and evolving central government programme