Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Talent; Greater London; Remote; GBP 78,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

A Senior Site Reliability Engineer is sought for a Central Government cloud programme. SC cleared, remote UK, initially six months, inside IR35, paying £500 per day.

The role drives SRE best practice across the cloud estate, onboarding services through a gate process, ensuring production readiness and security.

You will lead, mentor other SREs, work with development teams from design to production, and coordinate incident response and change assessments.

Qualifications

• SC clearance required or in place.
• Senior level SRE with cloud experience and production reliability focus.
• Ability to work in a government environment and within security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement techniques to improve reliability and SRE strategy.
• Collaborate with development teams to enable monitoring and best practices.
• Foster ownership and maintain integrity of Live Service.
• Manage the error budget with the product owner and balance work.
• Lead investigations of major incidents and coordinate response.
• Assess change requests with stakeholders and authorize implementations.
• Coach and mentor engineers in SRE practices.

Skills

SC clearance

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud monitoring

Kubernetes

Incident management

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Prometheus

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Central Government

SC cleared

Initially 6 months

Remote, UK

£500 per day Inside IR35

Our Central Government Client is looking to bring in a team of SC Cleared Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) for a large Cloud programme

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will drive adoption of SRE best practice across our Client's 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 Senior 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.

You must be able to demonstrate experience of working within a Public Sector environment delivering SRE Services and hold a valid SC clearance.

£500.00 / day