Senior Site Reliability Engineer

111142

£49,171 - £74,589

Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

You will be working on some of the largest and most exciting digital projects currently in the UK. These projects will impact every aspect of our society and every corner of the country.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you'll be embedded in a multi-disciplinary team where you will be at the forefront of adoption of SRE best practice.

Your daily tasks will be:

• You will drive adoption of SRE best practice across the team within which you are embedded.
• You will coach and mentor application development and operations engineers in the practice and techniques of SRE.
• You will assure the development, testing, and operation of the business or citizen-facing applications for which you are responsible and you will be accountable for the reliability of those applications.
• You will actively manage the work backlog and develop reliability improvements as well as leading initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands.
• You will provide technical leadership to wider operational teams along with providing oversight to the products and services they support.

Essential Criteria

• Passionate about improving internal processes.
• Understanding of security engineering and security best practice.
• Ability to architect and administer scalable, cloud-native and on-premise applications.
• Strong time management, and change management skills.
• Strong communications skills across multiple stakeholder types.

What are we offering?

• A competitive base salary - see bandings on advertisement
• Civil service contribution pension
• Flexi-time and alternative working patterns
• 25 days annual holiday
• 5 days leave for training and development

The Department is committed to promoting flexible ways of working, whilst enabling the business to operate at maximum efficiency and will expect colleagues to work from a blend of locations, including some time working at home, as required. The corporate hub location will be the designated place of work and any remote or home working arrangement does not constitute a change to your designated place of work or contractual Terms and Conditions.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Stage 2 - Video Interview

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Our total offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.