Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

The Gov*** (GDS) is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the performance of the National Data Library platform. The role involves providing technical leadership, writing infrastructure as code, and ensuring the reliability and security of live services.

Qualifications

• demonstrate systems design
• collaborate with stakeholders to understand user needs
• manage and optimise service performance
• improve and automate delivery pipelines (CI/CD)
• embed security best practices and ensure compliance with standards
• apply modern engineering standards
• use scripting and programming to automate processes
• support and maintain live production services
• integrate cloud infrastructure, APIs, and data pipelines

Responsibilities

• support and maintain live services for the National Data Library
• provide technical leadership and identify solutions for cloud-native infrastructure
• write infrastructure as code using terraform or CloudFormation
• deploy and configure observability tools for operational issues
• build CI/CD pipelines for production code deployment
• provide day-to-day support for platform and tools
• share knowledge and expertise to drive consistency and learning

Skills

Security clearance

Relocation