Security Cleared Site Reliability Engineer

TEKsystems; Manchester; On-site; GBP 101,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Security Cleared Site Reliability Engineer to join a client SRE team in Manchester. This contract role focuses on driving SRE best practices across a cloud estate, with emphasis on AWS-based services and ensuring production reliability and security requirements are met through a formal assessment gate.

You will collaborate with development teams from design to production, mentor engineers, lead incident investigations, and reduce toil by increasing automation.

Qualifications

• Active security clearance is required.
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering within cloud environments, especially AWS.
• Contract role based in Manchester, UK.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve reliability, run books, SRE strategy across teams.
• Collaborate with development teams and ensure monitoring is enabled.
• Promote engineering ownership and SRE best practices.
• Manage the error budget with product owners and coordinate incidents.
• Lead investigations for major incidents and coordinate remediation.
• Mentor engineers in SRE practices and techniques.
• Reducing toil by increasing automation and reliability.

Skills

SRE fundamentals

Incident management

Automation mindset

Stakeholder collaboration

On-call experience

Tools

AWS

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer to join a client SRE team. AWS-based SRE would be best.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will drive adoption of SRE best practice across our cloud estate.

By utilising both your soft skills and technical experience, you will work with teams to ensure our standards and governance is met by onboarding our services into the cloud, through a dedicated assessment stage gate process. In turn, ensuring our applications satisfy all the required operational and security needs for running in production.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability and performance of our applications and infrastructure.

The SRE team will put you in the position to work with application teams across the department on developing reliable and secure solutions to provide to citizens across the UK.

You will lead by example, providing technical direction and supporting other SREs within your team.

You will work with development teams from the design phase to help them use good practice and department standards when building their application infrastructure.

Additionally, responsibilities of the role will include:

• Design and develop the techniques for improving application reliability, run books, knowledge transfer across teams, and ongoing SRE strategy within your Functional and Professional Communities.
• Work collaboratively with development teams and provide guidance around best practice and ensure monitoring of applications is enabled.
• Push a mindset change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership, SRE best practice and the importance of the integrity and maintenance of the Live Service.
• Manage the error budget agreed with the product owner for the application and ensure that work is balanced in alignment with it.
• Act as the focal point for the investigation and resolution of major or complex incidents for the service, ensuring people with the right skills and expertise are proactively available to respond effectively.
• Assess the impact of change requests in consultation with stakeholders, providing technical expertise and authorising the implementation of subsequent changes.
• Coach and mentor application development and operations engineers in the practice and techniques of SRE.
• Conduct reviews for all high priority and major incidents ensuring they are done quickly and published.
• Routinely seek views and capture ideas from stakeholders and team members for improvements and encourage collaboration and innovation.
• Provide on-call support to help restore services, through dedicated run books or technical experience.
• Help to reduce toil and increase automation; by developing reliability to ensure we have a reduction of the time to live, and cost spend on repetitive tasks.

Must hold active Security Clearance

Job Title: Security Cleared Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Type: Contract