At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain reliability and performance of critical services; implement automation and support incident response.
- Company: SCC is focused on secure, mission-critical environments requiring DV & NPPV3 clearance.
- Benefits: Competitive rate of £750/day inside IR35 for a 12-month contract.
- Other info: Position is onsite in the West Midlands.
- Why this job: Join a high-security environment to enhance operational resilience and compliance.
- Qualifications: Active DV & NPPV3 clearance and strong experience in SRE or platform engineering roles required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with active DV & NPPV3 clearance to support a secure, mission‑critical environment. This role requires strong technical leadership across reliability engineering, automation, monitoring, and operational support within a high‑security, onsite setting.
Your responsibilities as the Site Reliability Engineer:
- Maintain and improve the reliability, performance, and availability of critical services.
- Implement automation across infrastructure, deployments, and monitoring to reduce operational toil.
- Support incident response, troubleshooting, and root‑cause analysis.
- Strengthen observability using modern tooling (logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting).
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and service resilience.
- Work closely with engineering, operations, and security teams to ensure compliant, stable operations.
- Produce documentation, runbooks, and operational handover materials.
- Ensure all activity aligns with security, compliance, and audit requirements for DV/NPPV3 environments.
As a successful Site Reliability Engineer, you will have:
- Active DV & NPPV3 clearance.
- Strong experience in SRE, platform engineering, or advanced systems engineering roles.
- Hands‑on skills in automation, scripting, and tooling (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- Experience with monitoring/observability platforms (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
- Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes desirable).
- Strong troubleshooting, incident‑response, and problem‑solving skills.
- Experience working within secure, regulated, or government environments.
If you’re a DV & NPPV3 cleared Site Reliability Engineer ready to support and enhance a mission‑critical, high‑security environment, apply now with your CV. Professional references required.
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Birmingham employer: SCC Flex (Flexible Resourcing)
SCC offers a competitive daily rate of £750 for a 12-month contract in the West Midlands. The team focuses on maintaining high-security standards in mission-critical environments, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.
Contact Details:
SCC Flex (Flexible Resourcing) Recruitment Team
