Site Reliability Engineer
Hybrid
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Freelance
24-02-2025
Job Specifications
Contract Inside IR35
Accountabilities -
1. Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure.
2. Monitor system performance, identify issues, and implement solutions to improve reliability and performance.
3. Collaborate with development teams to ensure new features and services are reliable and scalable.
4. Automate repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
5. Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems.
6. Conduct root cause analysis of incidents and implement preventive measures.
7. Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems.
8. Document processes, procedures, and best practices.
9. Perform detection rule tuning and creation in line with BT use case standards
10. Perform patching/upgrades to ensure software version of SIEM components are up date
11. Ensure data sources are healthy and to troubleshoot if they stop logging.
Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• • Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (SIEM technologies
• • Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• • Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• • Candidate must be based in the UK
Experience:
• Experienced SRE engineer (3 years +)
• Experience in security applications particularly SIEM
• Preferred experience in Elastic based systems
• Preferred experience in SIEM technologies
• Knowledge of Infrastructure Monitoring tools
About the Company
Ampstek supplies thousands of tech and digital professionals annually to a range of clients through its offices which spread across in 42 countries. From simple beginnings in 2014, Ampstek has always been on a journey to reinvent the world of recruitment through creating amazing customer and candidate experiences driven by a genuine desire to build long term relationships and outcomes. This motivation to break from the pack is stronger than ever as we roll out Ampstek Power globally, an innovative life hub platform for freel... Know more
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