Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer – 6-Month Contract (Possible Extension)
?? 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.