Site Reliability Engineer

CompanyStott and May

LocationLondon Area, United Kingdom

Posted At1/26/2026

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Description

OpenShift SRE SME

Location: London / Sheffield (Hybrid – 10 days per month onsite)

Contract: 6 months

Day Rate: £552.50 Inside IR35

The Role

We are seeking a skilled OpenShift Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a team. You need to have good hands-on experience on SRE with OpenShift virtualisation and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities:

Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of OpenShift-based Virtual/container platforms and services with a focus on automation.
Work and collaborate across teams, such as Applications, Hardware, and Network.
Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies.
Develop systems, primarily in Shell scripting, YAML, Ruby, Python, and Go language, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation.
Establish and enforce SRE best practices through platform constraints and high-fidelity system modeling.
Participate in an on-call rotation.

Essential skills

Hands-on experience with OpenShift virtualisation and Kubernetes administration.
Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains.
Experience managing a production service with RedHat, Windows, and ESXi.
Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking.
Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting & observability tools (e.g., Otel, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk etc.).
Proficiency in scripting languages Python, Shell, Go Lang, Terraform etc.
Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
Understanding containerization (Docker) and microservices architecture.
Ansible – Configuration Management and Deployment.

Desirable skills

Proven experience in Compute, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Hypervisors, Storage, Windows, Networks, and Linux.
Accountability for the control and compliance of the engineering process.
Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge specialist technologies and practices within the domain.
Promote development of engineers through coaching and mentoring.
Consult as required in other areas to assist and provide a different perspective to programmes or projects that require it.
Good problem-solving and communication skills.