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Site Reliability Engineer

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Location: Remote, with occasional travel to Scotland

Employment Type: 6 month Contract

Rate: 550 per day, Outside of IR35

Role Overview

Morgan Hunt are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Unix Infrastructure Engineer to support the deployment, migration, and optimisation of critical infrastructure services. The role involves ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and automation-driven improvements across RHEL, Oracle DB, Kubernetes, and AWS environments.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Deployment

• Support migration and deployment of services to RHEL 8/9.
• Maintain and enhance UNIX infrastructure (existing & new deployments).
• Optimise existing services & infrastructure for performance and security.
• Support Ansible Automation Platform for OS/application deployments.
• Manage Oracle Database 19c on Oracle Linux (KVM).
  
  

• Strengthen automation for disaster recovery (DR) activities.
• Work towards Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2hrs & Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero.
• Conduct DR testing (3 scheduled tests per financial year, potentially outside core hours).
• Maintain CommVault backup administration (Oracle DB, RHEL, MongoDB).
  
  

• Support logging & observability stacks (InfluxDB, Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios).
• Enhance monitoring via REST APIs, time-series databases, and full-stack tools (TICK, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch).
• Promote SLO/SLI measurement & tracking.
  
  

• Drive security improvements & vulnerability remediation.
• Perform regular RHEL/KVM patching & hardening.
• Manage Red Hat Satellite & Ansible Automation Platform.
• Support Palo Alto XDR across the estate.
  
  

• Work with AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3, NLB) using IaC (Terraform/CDK).
• Support CI/CD pipelines (Git, Ansible, Git runners).
• Administer containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
  
  

• Unix/Linux:
• Strong RHEL 7/8/9 administration.
• Red Hat Satellite & Ansible Automation.
• Shell scripting (Bash/Perl).
• Load balancers (HAProxy, Keepalived).
• Containers & Orchestration:
• Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift.
• Cloud & IaC:
• AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, NLB).
• Terraform/CDK for automation.
• Monitoring & Observability:
• Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, Nagios.
• Full-stack admin (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, OpenSearch).
• Methodologies:
• Agile (Scrum/Kanban), CI/CD, IaC principles.
• Risk-aware, customer-focused, proactive problem-solving.
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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