Senior Python SRE — Cloud Platform Reliability

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Belfast is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Python) to design, build and operate reliable, scalable platform services underpinning critical government digital products.

You’ll work in multidisciplinary, agile teams, improving observability, CI/CD pipelines and on-call support while mentoring colleagues and promoting strong engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to be more efficient.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development.
• Provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Support teams to adopt SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Contribute to observability across services, helping teams understand performance and user impact.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes.
• Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to meet user and business needs.
• Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management.
• Share knowledge and provide coaching to colleagues and contribute to an inclusive engineering community.
• Improve security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform.

Skills

Python

DevOps practices

SRE fundamentals

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

GitHub Actions

AWS CodePipelines/CodeBuild

Terraform

Docker

ECS

ECR

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Belfast is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Python) to design, build and operate reliable, scalable platform services underpinning critical government digital products.

You’ll work in multidisciplinary, agile teams, improving observability, CI/CD pipelines and on-call support while mentoring colleagues and promoting strong engineering practices.