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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cheltenham

Client: Northrop Grumman

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: c18f6c71a5b6

Job Views: 21

Posted: 12.08.2025

Expiry Date: 26.09.2025

Job Description:

Requisition ID: R10139774

Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity to Deliver the Nation’s Security. Together.

Role clearance type: You must be able to gain and maintain the highest level of UK Government clearance.

About Your Opportunity:

As an SRE Engineer, you will be forward-thinking, taking issues and finding repeatable, scalable, and automated solutions with a mindset to continuously improve your workflow guided by metrics. You will be able to deploy applications in a controlled, repeatable way and have developed technical specialisms in frameworks and/or toolsets.

• Flexible working schedules: We offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Discuss your scheduling preferences during the application process.
• Flexible Benefits Package: Choose benefits to satisfy your personal needs. Core benefits include Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance, and Pension. Additional benefits include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
• Employee Incentive Programme: Recognize exceptional performance through our annual incentive program awarded to top performers.
• Career Development: Opportunities for ongoing professional development and career growth.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work alongside customers in their environments, using your expertise to advance their work to high standards.
• Define and create efficient, automated solutions to reduce manual effort and customer costs.
• Promote high standards and good code quality practices.
• Assist with updates and out-of-hours maintenance as required.
• Coach and mentor junior/graduate engineers.

Your Experience:

• Support for live (mission-critical) systems, working with customers to troubleshoot and resolve issues under strict time constraints.
• Experience with industry-standard observability tools (ELK, Grafana, Prometheus) is a plus.
• Strong understanding and navigation of Windows and Linux operating systems with efficient fault finding and debugging skills.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure) with native tooling and standalone instances.

Your Future Team:

You will work with software teams providing infrastructure and platform expertise, supporting modernization efforts, monitoring, and automation. A strong customer site presence is required to maintain and upgrade systems.

Our team is composed of industry-leading practitioners across engineering and systems administration, working on complex solutions in cloud and on-premise environments. We value diversity and foster inclusive, respectful environments.

About Our Responsibilities:

Our customers operate in unique environments, presenting new challenges daily. We provide a space for learning and career development, promoting collaboration and innovation.

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Northrop Grumman encourages applicants from all backgrounds and abilities to join our diverse and inclusive workforce.