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Lead Site Reliability Engineer
UK Government - Department for Business and Trade · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United Kingdom68,732-88,423 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
London weighting for London-based employees; Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers and provides hands-on technical leadership for reliable, scalable and secure services supporting critical digital products. The role covers cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code, observability, CI/CD, service-level objectives, incident management and team development, including support for live services through an on-call rota.
Benefits
Role-specific learning and developmentFlexible working optionsCivil Service pension with 28.97% employer contributionLondon weighting for London-based employees
Qualifications
- Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers through line management, coaching or mentoring.
- Strong experience applying SRE, DevOps or platform engineering practices in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Experience designing, operating and improving reliable, scalable distributed systems.
- Experience delivering infrastructure-as-code and automation solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation or equivalent.
- Strong communication and stakeholder skills, including explaining complex technical concepts and influencing engineering practices.
- Desirable: experience writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language, such as Python.
- Desirable: experience using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and observability practices to improve service reliability.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers.
- Provide technical direction across SRE and DevOps practices.
- Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
- Improve monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting.
- Help teams define and use SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
- Improve CI/CD and engineering automation for safe, frequent changes.
- Oversee live-service reliability and support incident and problem management.
- Work with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to meet user and business needs.
- Promote security, resilience and compliance in engineering practices.
- Support live services through an on-call rota.
Skills
AWSAzureCloudFormationdbtGCPPythonTerraform
Languages
Python
Work schedule
Full-timePart-timeFlexible working
Travel
Travel to the primary office location is not reimbursed; travel to another offic
Industry
GovernmentDigital, data and technology
Security clearance
Security Check (SC) clearanceAt least 3 of the last 5 years present in the UK for SC clearance
Relocation
No