Senior Site Reliability Engineer

City, London
Inspire People

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 CD/CI pipelines. £55,400 to £71,900 (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, or Darlington.

DBT’s Digital, Data and Technology team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at DBT, you will evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You’ll help build and scale DBT’s global product platform, whose tech stack includes:

As a senior SRE you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.

You’ll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You’ll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on call rota.

DBT’s tech stack includes:

. Amazon Web Services
. Azure
. Jenkins and AWS Codepipelines
. Terraform & CloudFormation
. Kubernetes
. Elastic Container Service (ECS)
. Elasticsearch
. Python
. PostgreSQL
. Sentry
. Redis

Essential Skills and Experience
You should be able to demonstrate:
. Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code.
. Ability to build code-defined, reliable, and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems (eg Terraform, CloudFormation).
. Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud.
. Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP Networking.
. Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure changes.

Desirable Skills and Experience
While not essential, it would be ideal if you have demonstrable skills and experience of:

. PaaS, Kubernetes, Django, oauth2/saml2 integrations in Python.
. Experience coding infrastructure (ie, Terraform, CloudFormation).
. Experience in defining and measuring Service Level Objectives.
. Experience in observability driven development.
. Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open Source components.

In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

. Salary of £54,400 to £71,900 (including allowances) including annual allowance depending on location and experience
. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, or Darlington.
. Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service
. An excellent Civil Service pension scheme.

If you are an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer looking to enhance your career and make a difference across a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Alison Whitehead or Tom McNeill at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.

Assessment and Interview
As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a CV which outlines your experience, skills and fit for the role.

Sift will take place w/c 19th June.

Interviews will take place w/c 26th June.

At the sift stage for this role, Inspire People will assess you against the essential criteria listed above to compile a longlist of applications. If you are progressed through to this stage, you will be asked to complete a short, pre-recorded video interview with Inspire People or provide written answers to questions. These applications will then be sifted by DBT hiring managers.

At the interview stage for this role, we will assess your technical/specialist experience and ask you questions around Behaviours and Technical skills, which are part of the Civil Service Success Profiles.

The technical element within the interview, where you will be asked a series of questions to demonstrate your specific professional skills and knowledge related directly to the job role and context, will assess against capabilities which are outlined under DevOps engineer within the DDaT framework which can be found here. As part of this process, you will be asked to complete a technical exercise during your interview. More details will be provided following sift stage.

These Technical Skills you’ll be assessed against are:

. Availability and capacity management
. Development process optimisations
. Information security
. Modern standards approach
. Programming and build (software engineering)
. Prototyping (with MVP and POC)
. Systems design
. Systems integration
. User focus

You will also be assessed against the Behaviours of:

. Communicating and Influencing
. Developing Self and Others

Further Information:
This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.