About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Security Engineer to join a major client programme on a long-term contract through to March 2027. This is a primarily remote opportunity, although candidates must be willing and able to travel to client offices when required.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, security, and resilience of critical platforms and services, working closely with engineering, operations, and security teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, resilient, and highly available platforms.
- Embed security best practices within SRE and DevOps processes.
- Monitor system performance, availability, and security posture across environments.
- Automate operational and security controls using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to implement security controls and compliance requirements.
- Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Conduct vulnerability remediation and support security reviews and audits.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Active SC Clearance (mandatory).
- Proven experience in an SRE, DevSecOps, Platform Security, or Security Engineering role.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
- Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes.
- Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of security principles, vulnerability management, and security monitoring.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or similar.
- Excellent troubleshooting and stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable
- Experience working within government, defence, or highly regulated environments.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust principles and cloud security frameworks.
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Security, Azure Security Engineer, CISSP, CISM, or Kubernetes certifications.
