Job Opportunity: Freelance Site Reliability Engineer (Outside IR35)

£500-550 | Remote (UK-Based) | Occasional travel to Farnborough or Hammersmith

Contract until 2026

We're hiring two hands-on Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join a fast-moving platform team on a long-term contract. This role is ideal for engineers with strong coding skills who are comfortable resolving live production issues - not just escalating them, but diving into the code and fixing them directly.

This is a UK-based, fully remote position, with occasional in-person meetings in Farnborough or Hammersmith . The contract is outside IR35 and runs through 2026.

Key Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience, ideally in Java (Spring Boot) and Python
• Proven background in SRE practices, including platform reliability, monitoring, and incident response
• Ability to debug and resolve issues directly in production code
• Solid experience with Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools
• A proactive, collaborative approach with a strong engineering mindset

Desirable Experience

• Background in regulated or high-availability environments such as Payments or FinTech
• Understanding of data platforms or large-scale platform architecture

Why Join?

• Outside IR35
• Competitive day rate (£500-550)
• Remote-first working with occasional on-site collaboration
• Long-term contract through 2026
• Opportunity to have real impact on system reliability, performance, and code quality

This is not a passive SRE role - you'll be embedded in engineering teams, taking full ownership of production issues and resolving them at the code level. If you're a hybrid between a developer and an SRE, we'd love to hear from you.