Job Vacancy Senior Site Reliability Engineer - DBT - G7
United Kingdom
Government Digital & Data
Job position Senior Site Reliability Engineer - DBT - G7
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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.
Out of the 4 positions available, one of these posts will have line management responsibilities but we expect all of our Senior Site Reliability Engineers to coach and mentor junior colleagues across DDaT.
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
Candidate profile
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.
Working environment
Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford
About the jobJob summaryIf you would like to find out more about the role, the Site Reliability Engineering team and what it’s like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Friday 17th October at 12:30pm. Please click to book your spot.
About us
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.
The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission.
About the role
We are on a mission to build a new cutting-edge developer platform in AWS and support DBT services running on the platform.
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.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - DBT - G7
Government Digital & Data
