At a Glance
- Tasks: Support critical applications, solve complex issues, and improve system reliability.
- Company: A growing tech consultancy focused on national security in Manchester.
- Benefits: Salary between £40,000 – £65,000, hybrid working, and a comprehensive benefits pack.
- Other info: Great opportunity for software engineers to transition into SRE/DevOps roles.
- Why this job: Join a collaborative team and work on high-impact systems in a secure environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in troubleshooting live application issues and understanding full-stack behaviour.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 65000 £ per year.
A growing National Security-focused tech consultancy is expanding its engineering capability in Manchester and is looking to hire Site Reliability Engineers to support critical, customer-facing applications. This role sits between software engineering and operations — ideal for someone who enjoys working on live systems, solving complex issues, and improving how applications are built and supported.
The position will involve working closely with development teams to resolve application-level issues, particularly where customers are impacted, while also building automation and long-term fixes to improve reliability and performance. The environment is highly collaborative and engineering-led, with a strong focus on reducing manual support through automation and best practice.
What’s on offer:
- Salary between £40,000 – £65,000 depending on experience
- Hybrid and flexible working model
- Company Benefits Pack
- Opportunity to move into or further develop within SRE / DevOps engineering
- Exposure to complex, high-impact systems in a secure environment
- Strong focus on engineering improvement vs pure support work
- On-call allowance as part of a shared rota
What you need:
- Experience troubleshooting application issues in live/production environments
- Understanding of how applications behave across the full stack (code, infrastructure, databases)
- Familiarity with Linux or Windows environments (e.g. Bash, PowerShell)
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or OpenStack
- Experience with monitoring/logging tools (e.g. ELK stack)
- Understanding of CI/CD or deployment tooling
- Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker, microservices) is beneficial but not essential
- Comfortable working in Agile environments
This role would particularly suit:
- Software engineers looking to move closer to platform/SRE work
- Support engineers wanting a more engineering-led role
- Individuals who enjoy debugging, problem-solving, and improving systems rather than just maintaining them
