Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Defence
2 days ago
Farnborough
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Defence/National Security - £75k - Farnborough - Hybrid A permanent opportunity for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building secure, automated, and highly reliable platforms. This role sits within a defence and national security environment, working on modern infrastructure where automation, resilience, and secure-by-design principles are fundamental. You'll work closely with platform engineers, infrastructure teams, and operational stakeholders to take requirements from early design and proof-of-concept through to production. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical design, offering real influence over tooling, standards, and DevOps ways of working. It suits someone curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in complex, regulated environments. What you'll be doing • Designing, delivering, upgrading, and maintaining core platforms, services, and automations, • Building and improving monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms, • Designing secure infrastructure using automation-first approaches, • Creating and productionising proofs of concept for new tools and technologies, • Diagnosing and resolving performance, reliability, and availability issues, • Supporting architecture, documentation, and non-functional requirements, • Strong experience with Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows Server environments, • Hands-on Scripting skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell or similar), • Proven experience with automation and DevOps tooling (Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Git), • Experience working with Azure or similar cloud platforms, • Solid understanding of infrastructure reliability, monitoring, and incident response, • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work across multiple priorities, • Infrastructure-as-Code life cycle and best practices, • Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), • Configuration management and desired state tooling, • Application and platform monitoring tools (Splunk, Nagios or similar), • Experience hardening systems and conducting security assessments