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Site Reliability Engineer
Gov*** · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United Kingdom58,975-79,215 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%; in-year bonus scheme
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Site reliability engineers build and support infrastructure for Gov***s, helping application teams deliver secure, resilient and highly available systems. The work includes infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, capacity management and operational support across services such as GOV.UK One Login, Pay and Notify. The technical environment includes Linux, Java, TypeScript, Python, Git, AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, ECS and AWS Lambda.
Benefits
Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%25–30 days of annual leaveAdditional day off for the King's birthdayIn-year performance bonus schemeCareer progression, coaching and personal development budgetEmployee assistance programmePay advances, including travel season ticket advancesDeath-in-service benefitsCycle-to-work scheme and facilitiesEmployee discounts10 learning days per yearFive special leave days for volunteering
Qualifications
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Java, TypeScript or Python, with modern development practices and strong Git skills.
- Working knowledge of Agile practices and using quantitative and qualitative user data to improve outcomes.
- Strong understanding of Linux internals and experience with Linux virtual machines or containers, including troubleshooting, capacity management and availability strategies.
- Experience supporting large production services and infrastructure such as databases, web servers, DNS, CDNs, reverse proxies, message queues and load balancers.
- Experience building and maintaining cloud services, preferably on AWS, and creating infrastructure as code with Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or AWS CodePipeline.
- Understanding of information security principles and securing large operational services.
- Experience with systems design, established design patterns and integrations between systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain resilient, highly available and secure systems.
- Create reusable and reliable infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines.
- Monitor and instrument systems to identify and respond to operational issues.
- Build CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, efficient production releases.
- Participate in second-line and out-of-hours support rotations.
- Share tools and practices to promote consistency and high engineering standards.
- Support application teams and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills
AmbassadorAWSCloudFormationECSGitGitHubGitHub ActionsJavaKubernetesAWS LambdaLinuxPythonTerraformTypeScriptCloudFrontDockerHAProxyMongoDBMySQLNGINXPostgreSQLRabbitMQRedis
Work schedule
Flexible workingFull-timePart-timeJob shareCompressed hoursIn-hours second-line and out-of-hours support rotations
Industry
Government digital servicesPublic sector
Security clearance
Security Check (SC) clearanceBaseline Personnel Security Standard checksBasic criminal record check
Relocation
No