NineTech
Site Reliability Engineer
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Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) – Linux & Kubernetes Specialist
Location: Remote (EU travel required 2–3 times per year)
Rate: £530 per day OUTSIDE OF IR35
Contract: Long-term
Start: ASAP / Flexible
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-performing engineering team on a long-term contract. This role is predominantly remote, with periodic EU travel required 2–3 times per year, for up to 6 weeks at a time.
Ideally the candidate will have an EU passport or willing to work around the EU work restrictions as a British passport holder.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of our Kubernetes-based platforms and supporting infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and maintain highly available and scalable Kubernetes environments
- Ensure platform reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Implement and maintain secure networking, PKI, and service mesh solutions
- Troubleshoot complex issues across Linux, Windows, networking, and hardware layers
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system resilience and operational maturity
- Support infrastructure automation and observability initiatives
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Required Skills & Experience (Must Have)
- Kubernetes – strong hands-on experience operating production clusters
- Networking (Advanced & Basics) – deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, and network troubleshooting
- Linux – strong administration and troubleshooting skills
- Windows (Basics) – working knowledge of Windows systems
- PKI – certificates, TLS, and secure communications
- Hardware – understanding of server hardware and physical infrastructure
- (Service Mesh) – traffic management, security, and observability
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Nice to Have
- Windows (Advanced) – in-depth administration and troubleshooting
- Ansible – configuration management and automation
- Prometheus – monitoring and alerting solutions
Optional / Beneficial Experience
- Storage Technologies & Hardware – enterprise storage systems and concepts
- Firewall Hardware – deployment and operational experience
- Cilium – eBPF-based networking and security
- Grafana / Loki – metrics visualization and log aggregation
- Virtualization in Kubernetes – running or integrating virtualized workloads within Kubernetes environments
Location & Eligibility
- Predominantly remote role
- EU travel required 2–3 times per year (up to 6 weeks per trip)
- EU passport preferred, or willingness to work within EU work restrictions as a British passport holder
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