Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

    DWP. Digital with Purpose.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

      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.

        You and your role

        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.

        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.

        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.

        Details. Wages. Perks.

        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.

        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.

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

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

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

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

        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.

          Process:

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

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

          Interview: a single stage interview online.

          CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.