DV Site Reliability Engineer (Contract outside of IR35)
Site Reliability Engineer ensuring availability and performance of cross-domain government services, managing cloud and on-prem infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and monitoring stacks like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Compensation
- £500–£650 / day
- Location
- Cheltenham
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Must have live DV Clearance
- Experience using modern configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef or similar)
- Experience working with Terraform
- Experience with docker containers & container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm)
- Experience using and maintaining CI/CD tools (Jenkins or similar)
- Experience with monitoring tools (InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution)
- Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Linux command line, administration and shell scripting
- Working knowledge of network security protocols
- Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
Nice to have
- Industry experience writing well-tested code in Java, Go, Python or similar
- Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies
- Experience of working in a service management environment
- Practical applications of using observability patterns in previous systems
- Creating and monitoring system availability metrics to drive work reducing downtime
- Experience in Azure
Full description
About Us
In 2019, the founders were working as engineers solving complex cross-domain problems within government organisations.
TwinStream was formed to bring together their collective expertise and experience into a single business, focused on delivering technical excellence and high-quality service to clients.
Since then, the company has grown to over 100 team members across the UK, with colleagues working both on-site with clients, hybrid and remotely from home.
Day Rate: £500 - £650
Location: Hybrid working in Cheltenham (3-4 days) with possible 24/7 call out when on rota
Security Clearance: Must have live DV Clearance
About the role:
Our cross-domain services are used in high-profile government organisations. The demand for these services continues to grow in both scope and scale. We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help satisfy that demand. As an SRE you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and cost effectiveness of these services. You will be working with multiple feature development teams and the BAU/Support team to define and evolve our cloud & on-prem infrastructure & delivery pipelines, improving system observability, demonstrating performance and capacity improvements and proactively identifying and mitigating reliability risks.
Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer:
- Designing and maintaining reliable, scalable physical and virtual infrastructure
- Monitoring system performance and proactively resolving issues
- Automating processes using tools such as Ansible to improve efficiency and consistency
- Collaborating with engineers and stakeholders across the business
- Supporting continuous improvement of systems, tools, and practices
- Operating across the full infrastructure stack, from bare metal systems through to virtualised deployments and the applications running within them.
Skills & Experience Required:
- Experience using modern configuration management tools (such as Ansible, Chef or similar)
- Experience working with Terraform
- Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm)
- Experience both using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or similar)
- Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana.
- Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution)