Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid - Tech Consult

A growing National Security-focused tech consultancy is expanding its engineering capability in Manchester and is looking to hire Site Reliability Engineers to support critical, customer-facing applications.

This role sits between software engineering and operations — ideal for someone who enjoys working on live systems, solving complex issues, and improving how applications are built and supported. The position will involve working closely with development teams to resolve application-level issues, particularly where customers are impacted, while also building automation and long-term fixes to improve reliability and performance.

The environment is highly collaborative and engineering-led, with a strong focus on reducing manual support through automation and best practice.

What’s on offer

• Salary between £40,000 – £65,000 depending on experience
• Hybrid and flexible working model
• Company Benefits Pack
• Opportunity to move into or further develop within SRE / DevOps engineering
• Exposure to complex, high-impact systems in a secure environment
• Strong focus on engineering improvement vs pure support work
• On-call allowance as part of a shared rota

What you need

• Experience troubleshooting application issues in live/production environments
• Understanding of how applications behave across the full stack (code, infrastructure, databases)
• Experience with at least one of the following Java or similar programming languages JavaScript / web technologies
• Familiarity with Linux or Windows environments (e.g. Bash, PowerShell)
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or OpenStack
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools (e.g. ELK stack)
• Understanding of CI/CD or deployment tooling
• Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker, microservices) is beneficial but not essential
• Comfortable working in Agile environments

This role would particularly suit:

• Software engineers looking to move closer to platform/SRE work
• Support engineers wanting a more engineering-led role
• Individuals who enjoy debugging, problem-solving, and improving systems rather than just maintaining them