Site Reliability Engineer (Contract - Outside IR35)
Location: Onsite 5 days a week in Leeds, West Yorkshire
Contract Type: 6 months (initial) - Outside IR35
Contract Type: 6 months (initial) - Outside IR35
We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join on a fast-paced contract, driving down technical debt and delivering urgent, high-impact fixes across a mixed environment of Linux, Windows, and Apache-based systems.
This isn't a greenfield build. It's a high-urgency, hands-on role where you'll patch vulnerabilities, remediate legacy issues, and stabilise infrastructure and applications, owning the end-to-end delivery of fixes with minimal oversight.
What You'll Be Doing
- Patching & hardening: Triage vulnerabilities across servers, apps, and services, applying fixes safely and quickly.
- Technical debt remediation: Refactor brittle components, clean up legacy systems, and stabilise critical services.
- Full lifecycle fixes: Take issues from diagnosis through to implementation, testing, and release.
- Operate at pace: Balance urgency with safety to deliver resilient solutions in production environments.
What We're Looking For
5+ years engineering experience - backend, DevOps, SRE, or similar.
Proven record in security patching, hotfixes, and incident remediation.
Strong scripting & coding (Python, Bash, PowerShell; plus exposure to Java/C# or similar backend languages).
CI/CD fluency - experience building and maintaining pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
Infrastructure expertise - Linux (servers/hosting), Windows (enterprise/user-facing apps), Apache/web services.
Automation-first mindset - comfortable with IaC (Terraform, Ansible), containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring tools.
Able to work independently, prioritise rapidly, and ship safely under pressure.
If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with a track record in patching, remediation, and technical debt reduction, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now with your CV and we'll follow up.