Senior Site Reliability Engineer

strong>

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

strong>

Pay up to £78,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and a truly great work life balance.

• Are you someone who has excellent stakeholder management and problem-solving skills? ul>

• Do you like finding the root cause of a problem and building automated solutions to make sure it doesn't happen again? ul>

p>

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

strong>

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our community of experts at DWP Digital as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer within our Health & Disability team.

p>

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

p>

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

p>

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

p>

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• LEAD CRITERION: Demonstrable experience using automation to remove toil with scripting, infrastructure, and configuration as code.
• Demonstrable experience of reliability engineering including capacity and performance management through monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting a Live Service.
• Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based applications in AWS.
• Demonstrable experience of building and maintaining CI/ CD pipelines.
• Demonstrable experience communicating effectively with stakeholders at multiple levels to provide feedback and support. ul>

p>

In addition to the essential criteria above, experience of working with any of the following technologies is also desirable but not essential:

• Terraform, Ansible, Java, Javascript, MongoDB, Docker, JSON, YAML, SQL, Git, GitLab CI, Jsonnet, Libsonnet. ul>

p>

You and your role

strong>

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be using modern tooling to oversee Production systems to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our production systems. You will have a passion for operational excellence and expertise in cloud platforms, monitoring tools, and automation frameworks.

p>

Your primary task will be to act as the 'gatekeeper' of Production, but you will also strive to achieve the Department and H&D goals, making Digital Accessible, Reliable, Cost effective and Sustainable.

p>

We look to achieve this by creating scalable and highly reliable software systems and leading initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands.

p>

Details. Wages. Perks.

p>

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

p>

Hybrid Working:We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

p>

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £78,517

p>

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.

p>

Holidays:A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

p>

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

p>

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. ul>

p>

Process:

p>

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:

p>

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

p>

Interview: a single stage interview online.

strong>

CLICK APPLYfor more information and to start your application.

p>

p>

p>

p>

p>

p>

p>

p>