Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Department for Business and Trade; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department in the UK is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build a cutting-edge developer platform on AWS. The role involves ensuring reliable internet services, supporting development teams with monitoring and CI/CD tools, and participating in an on-call rotation. Ideal candidates will have extensive AWS experience and familiarity with containerization technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience with building and scaling global platforms.
• Capability to optimize observability tooling and incident responses.

Responsibilities

• Ensure internet services are reliable and performant.
• Support development teams with monitoring and CI/CD tools.
• Participate in scaling the platform and on-call support.

Skills

Amazon Web Services

Azure

AWS CodePipelines

Terraform

Docker

Python

Elasticsearch

Tools

AWS CodeBuild

Elastic Container Service (ECS)

PostgreSQL

Job description

Overview

We are on a mission to build a new cutting-edge developer platform in AWS and support DBT services running on the platform. We are seeking Senior Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to ensure our internet services work as users expect.

Responsibilities

• Provide application performance monitoring, exception/log/metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD pipelines to support development teams.
• Evangelise service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets with product teams and help negotiate them.
• Build and scale the global product platform and participate in an on-call rota with additional allowance.
• Roll out observability tooling to enhance system monitoring and incident response; streamline deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon Web Services and Azure.
• AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild.
• Terraform and AWS Copilot (CloudFormation).
• Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Python and Django framework.
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS).
• Sentry and Redis/ElastiCache.

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