Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Python

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Darlington is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Python) to design, build, and operate reliable, scalable platform services underpinning critical government digital products. You’ll collaborate with product and architecture teams to improve reliability and reduce operational burden.

You will contribute to building a global platform, support live services on-call, and champion observability, security and resilient deployment practices across

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and operating reliable platform services.
• Strong Python and Django knowledge.
• Experience with cloud platforms, AWS preferred.
• Experience implementing and operating SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs.
• Hands-on with CI/CD tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain platform services used by development teams.
• Write clean, tested code for platform tooling and services.
• Improve observability with monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
• Support live services, incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Mentor colleagues and contribute to engineering community.

Skills

Python

Django

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Terraform

Docker

AWS

GitHub Actions

On-call incident response

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS CodePipelines

CodeBuild

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Python

If you would like to find out more about the role, the SRE team and what it’s like to work at BIST, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Tuesday 8th Septemberat 12:30pm.

About us

The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) helps businesses invest, innovate, export and grow across the UK. Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) helps deliver this by designing, building and running the services, platforms and technology that businesses and colleagues rely on every day.

Our teams work on a wide range of services and technologies, including:

• digital services that help businesses access government support, guidance and opportunities
• data and AI products that support decision making and enable innovation
• internal tools and services that help colleagues work more effectively
• secure technology and platforms that support critical government services
• cyber security services that protect systems, data and users

By joining DDaT, you'll work on services used by businesses, colleagues and citizens across the UK. You'll be part of multidisciplinary teams focused on improving services, solving complex problems and delivering better outcomes for users.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace. In recognition of this, we were named Best Public Sector Employer at the Women in Tech Employer Awards 2025!

About the role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps), you will play a key role in designing,buildingand running reliable,scalableand secure platform services that underpin criticalBISTdigital products. Working in multidisciplinary, agile teams,you’llhelp ensure development teams have the tools and support they need,from observability andmonitoringthrough to CI/CD pipelinesso services are resilient,performantand centred around user needs.You’llchampion good engineering practices, helping teams use data and insight to continuously improve how services are delivered andoperated.

This is a hands-on role whereyou’llspend much of your time building and improving platform capabilities directly.You’llwork closely with product managers,architectsand engineers to improve reliability and reduce operational burden, while also supporting and mentoring others across the engineering community.You’llcontribute to building and scaling our global platform, support live services through an on-call rota, and play an active role in initiatives such as enhancing observability and streamlining deployment processes to improve service quality and delivery outcomes.

You will:

• Build andmaintainshared service products enabling developers to be more efficient.
• Write clean,maintainableand well-tested code to support platform and tooling development.
• Work closely with development teams to provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics,dashboardsand CI/CD pipelines.
• Build,maintainand improve reliable,secureand scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Support teams to adopt SRE practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs)and error budgets.
• Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance,reliabilityand user impact.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe,frequentand low-risk delivery of changes.
• Collaborate with product,deliveryand architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs.
• Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement.
• Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues, contributing to a supportive and inclusive engineering community.
• Contribute to improving security,resilienceand compliance practices within the platform.

What tech will you be using?

• Python and Django framework
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• GitHub Actionsand AWSCodePipelines/CodeBuild
• Terraform
• Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS)and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Company

Company: Government Recruitment Service Salary: £63,824 - £83,778 Hours: Full-time Location: Darlington Job type: Permanent Posting date: 25 Aug 2026 Closing date: 14 Sept 2026