About this role
Salary: £41,500 - 71,000 per year
Requirements
- Existing UK DV clearance (essential)
- Strong MSSQL administration experience
- Production Linux administration experience
- Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally with Ansible
- Docker / Docker Compose experience
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder skills
- Desirable: GitLab / CI/CD, REST APIs, IIS, Jira / Confluence, Keycloak, Grafana, Elasticsearch or NiFi
Responsibilities
- Manage and support multiple production databases, including MSSQL.
- Provide 1st-3rd line support and troubleshoot application and system issues.
- Administer Linux and Windows production environments.
- Support BAU and backend infrastructure activities.
- Automate infrastructure using IaC and scripting.
- Deploy and support production services and client IT systems.
- Work directly with technical teams and end users.
Technologies
- Ansible
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Confluence
- Docker
- ElasticSearch
- GitLab
- Grafana
- Support
- JIRA
- Linux
- REST
- Windows
- DevOps
More
Were looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a critical Defence project in London. This is a hands-on contract role covering application support, systems administration, production databases and backend infrastructure, working closely with an existing on-site engineer. The contract starts ASAP and is expected to last six months. The role requires 4–5 days on site in London and pays up to £755 per day inside IR35.
last updated 46 week of 2026