Graduate Site Reliability Engineer

Our client is the digital and intelligence arm of a major defence company.

Description

Job title: Graduate Digital Intelligence Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Manchester
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements, however for this role you will be expected to attend your site 3-5 days per week.

Salary: £34,000 Per Annum + £2,000 Welcome Bonus

Who we are
Join our client and you'll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you'll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You'll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow – shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space – there's no limit to where a career at our client could take you.

Role description
As an SRE, fundamentally you will be doing work that has historically been done by an operations team but using software and systems engineering expertise to use automation to reduce human labour, limiting traditional manual operations work (incident tickets, on call etc.) to no more than half of the SRE team's time.

Core duties
• Supporting and maintaining essential service that support core mission applications, proactively enhancing their availability, performance and stability;
• Finding innovative solutions to problems rather than undertaking repetitive work, automating everything you can. You will work alongside product teams, advising them of good practice in how to design and build systems, learning from what you know works well. And you will never be asked to spend more than 50% of your time on support (otherwise the product team supports the excess work until the support work returns to 50% or less);
• You will instrument applications where they don't have sufficient monitoring in place and use the output of it to demonstrate the improvements your team are making daily. You will be well versed in the relationship between software and infrastructure, understanding the characteristics of systems that enable them to be scalable and resilient to failure, and how to get the best out of the infrastructure they are deployed to;
• Participating in the wider DevOps/SRE community within the organisation

The Digital Intelligence Team
Drive success and innovation at our client, where you will develop skills to be an integral part in delivering cutting-edge solutions that protect and empower global security.

Why our client
Here you'll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work – this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You'll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what's most important to you and your family – support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive
We're committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

Please be aware that many roles at our client are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Qualification requirements

As a minimum requirement you'll need to have obtained, or be predicted to obtain, a 2:2 in your Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Start date:

6th September 2027

Length of contract:

Permanent contract