Senior Site Reliability Engineer

On behalf of the Met Office, we are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based Remotely with occasional travel to Exeter.

We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Customer Identity & Authorisation (IAMS) team. This role is critical to ensuring the reliability, scalability and security of identity services that millions depend on. You'll lead a small team, act as a technical authority on Azure AD B2C and drive best practices in reliability engineering while collaborating with developers and architects to shape the future of identity services.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer your main responsibilities will be to:
. Lead and support a small team of DevOps engineers, including providing coaching, mentoring, and knowledge transfer (KT), while managing routine administrative tasks.
. Act as a technical authority in customer authorisation tools, particularly Azure AD B2C, with the ability to engage in deep technical discussions and challenge architectural decisions where needed.
. Collaborate closely with two dedicated developers maintaining a complex B2C implementation, ensuring continuity and technical excellence.
. Contribute to the ongoing Discovery phase, evaluating alternative tooling options in anticipation of B2C's evolving life cycle.
. Provide hands-on support and guidance to DevOps engineers working on operational support and developer enablement.
. Develop and maintain automation and tooling using languages such as Java and Python.

Essential:
. Experience working within AWS and Azure Cloud.
. Strong Python experience (Java desirable) and GitHub.
. Deep knowledge of Identity & Access Management, especially Azure AD B2C.
. Hands on experience with CI/CD, automation, monitoring and reliability engineering.
. Inclusive leadership skills and experience managing diverse teams.
. Strategic thinker with a hands on approach to problem solving.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Met Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Commitment

The Met Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".