Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for Senior Site Reliability Engineers to join a team that ensures DBT's digital services work as users expect, working with development teams giving them the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD pipelines. £63,824 to £83,778 (including allowances) plus excellent Civil Service benefits and pension. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Birmingham, Salford, Edinburgh or Belfast.

About the Role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will:
- Build and scale DBT's product platform and services in AWS.
- Provide development teams with observability, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines and service-level objectives.
- Participate in an on-call rota (with allowance), helping to keep DBT services resilient and reliable.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the growth of the SRE function.

Technologies you will work with include AWS, Azure, Terraform/CloudFormation, Docker, ECS, ECR, ElasticSearch, Python/Django, PostgreSQL (RDS), Redis, and more.

Essential Criteria

- Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

- Ability to build reliable, well-tested infrastructure as code (eg, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).

- Fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean, effective code.

- Experience designing, analysing and troubleshooting distributed systems.

- Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP Networking.

- Ability to evaluate user impact of infrastructure changes.

- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

- Civil Service pension with average employer contribution of 28.97%

- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 with service

- Hybrid/flexible working (2-3 days in office per week)

- Three paid volunteering days per year

- Learning and development tailored to your role

- Inclusive culture encouraging diversity

Security Clearance

This role requires SC clearance. To be eligible, you must have been resident in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet SC criteria will result in withdrawal of your application.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit a 2-page CV aligned to the essential criteria. Your application will be assessed against these requirements before being progressed to DBT. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview and technical exercise.

If you are a DevOps Engineer, SRE, or Systems Administrator looking to make a real impact across government digital services, apply today or contact Keesha Paulsen at Inspire People in confidence for more information.