Senior Specialist Engineer (Specialist Site Reliability Engineer SRE)

UK Health Security Agency; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

UK Health Security Agency is seeking an SRE engineer to apply engineering principles to remediating infrastructure and operational problems, focusing on automation and CI/CD to keep services reliable, scalable and performing in production.

You will monitor and manage cloud infrastructure, drive observability, respond to incidents, optimise capacity, and collaborate with engineering teams to reduce manual tasks while improving efficiency.

Job description

An SRE engineer will apply engineering principles to remediate infrastructure and operational problems. The primary focus will be on automation and CI/CD; ensuring our services run reliably, are scalable, and perform optimally in production environments. The role will monitor and manage these aspects while taking responsibility for multiple cloud infrastructure services. Observability of systems will be key to prioritising the operational service improvements and performance improvements to meet and exceed SLOs (Service Level Objectives)., Working with the HPC & SRE Team to:

• Ensure services are stable, scalable, performant and automated
• Respond to incidents, troubleshooting issues, and restoring services as quickly as possible
• Prioritise operational service improvements to meet or increase SLO, minimising downtime
• Ensure that effective monitoring/alerting is in place to proactively identify issues using tools and dashboards. Reducing times to respond to issues.
• Leverage automation to streamline tasks, reduce overhead on repeatable operations, reduce manual intervention and improve efficiency. Write code that is maintainable, clear, and concise
• Optimise system performance using strong problem-solving skills to identify bottlenecks with an engineering mindset
• Ensure systems can handle current and future workloads through automation and capacity planning
• Continuously improve services through observability, and identify ways to improve observability practices
• Follow SRE principles. Guide and educate stakeholders to adopt implemented principles
• Provide technical documentation for engineers. Providing training, where appropriate
• Working closely with engineering and technology teams to improve operational processes, reduce manual tasks, ensure seamless collaboration/knowledge sharing, reduce risks and adapt to new ways of working.
  We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
• UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.