Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Cardiff

Location: Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

About the job

We are on a mission to build a new cutting-edge developer platform in AWS and migrate existing DBT services from GOV.UK PaaS in the process. Can we rely on you to make us more reliable? We need Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to make sure our internet services work as users expect.

Main responsibilities

• As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer 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 for which you will receive an additional allowance.
• Specific projects the team are working on include rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response and streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery.

You will be using:

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild
• Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
• Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
• Python and Django framework
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• Sentry
• Redis/Elasticache

Person specification

Skills and experience

It is essential that you have:

• Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Ability to build code-defined, reliable, and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code.
• 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.
• Excellent communication skills when dealing with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

It is desirable that you have:

• Experience in defining and measuring Service Level Objectives through observability.
• Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open-Source components.

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to apply: As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a 2-page CV which outlines your experience, skills and fit for the role, and to complete a short, pre-recorded video screening interview (alternately you can provide written answers to questions). Inspire People will assess your application against the essential criteria listed above to compile a longlist of applications, which will then be sifted by DBT hiring managers. If you are successful, you will be invited to interview.

This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer will be withdrawn.

More about us: This role can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas. If you are based in London, you will receive London weighting. DBT employees work in a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in the office on average.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed.

Nationality requirements: This job is broadly open to UK nationals, nationals of the Republic of Ireland, nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, and nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS).

Working for the Civil Service: The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

Diversity and Inclusion: The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.