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Site Reliability Engineer (Outside IR35)

Site Reliability Engineer (Outside IR35)

Hybrid

Gloucestershire, United kingdom

£ 86 /hour

Freelance

24-02-2026

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Skills

Python Java Go CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Monitoring Jenkins Ansible Test Networking Linux Azure AWS OpenShift Terraform Prometheus Grafana Linux Administration

Job Specifications

Outside IR35 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

Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support and scale mission-critical platforms used across high-profile government environments. You will need to be part of the intelligence community with an active DV clearance.

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Key Responsibilities

• 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

Essential Skills

• Terraform and infrastructure automation (Ansible/Chef or similar)

• Containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)

• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins or similar)

• Monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB)

• Messaging systems (RabbitMQ / AMQP)

• Linux administration & scripting

• AWS experience (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)

• Strong understanding of networking and security fundamentals

Nice to Have

• Coding experience (Java, Go, Python)

• Secure or cross-domain system experience

• Service management or operations background

• Azure exposure

Interested and meet 80% of the job description? Reach out to jrufus@venngroup.com for a discreet chat.

About the Company

We make recruitment personal, it's never just a job. Established in 2001, our founders knew that recruitment worked when the three elements, good clients, good candidates and great service intersected to find the best solution. We act with clear intent, focused on individual relationships and outcomes and are able, in every situation, to provide a personal response to our clients and candidates. Our specialist teams are connected to the best talent in the country and we are experts in providing the most suitable recruitmen... Know more