Site Reliability Engineer

The People’s Pension; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading not-for-profit organization is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer. You will be pivotal in enhancing the reliability of applications during a significant migration to Azure. The role involves incident management, metrics monitoring, and applying DevOps principles. Enjoy generous pension contributions, healthcare, and opportunities for personal development in a flexible working environment.

Benefits

Generous pension contributions

Onsite gym

Subsidised restaurant

Learning & development opportunities

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Strong background in SRE, application support, or DevOps.
• Experience in Agile and ITIL frameworks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Support application reliability and improve IT function.
• Manage incidents and perform post-mortems.
• Monitor application metrics and create automation.

Skills

SRE/application support

IT operations

infrastructure

software development

DevOps

Tools

Azure DevOps

Bicep

Terraform

PowerShell

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Description

Site Reliability Engineer

About People’s Partnership:

At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

What you'll be doing:

This is an opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer to join the function where you will support the organisation in maintaining the reliability of our applications. You will influence how the team operates and deliver value as we migrate our applications into Azure and work to improve the overall performance of the IT Function for its customers and employees alike.

• Work with key individuals across IT Service, Architecture, Delivery and Change functions, to implement the processes, standards, tooling, automation, and strategic vision of the Site Reliability team.
• Manage application-related incidents and work with the wider IT function to investigate, resolve and perform post-mortems for on-premise and cloud-hosted applications.
• Monitor and report on appropriate application metrics to proactively resolve issues using modern toolsets. Create automation and pipelines where necessary to reduce toil, and improve availability, reliability, security, and velocity.
• Maintain effective feedback loops so that findings can be prioritised and acted upon in a timely fashion.
• Follow SRE and DevOps core principles to drive adoption and utilisation.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong background in one or more of the following areas: SRE/application support/IT operations/infrastructure/software development/DevOps.
• Experience working within both Agile and ITIL frameworks.
• Experience working with DevOps principles and concepts such as CI/CD and IaC.
• Experience of SRE environments and processes specifically in the areas of availability, incident management and monitoring.
• Knowledge of Scripting languages and Desired state configuration such as Bicep or Terraform, and PowerShell.
• Experience using Azure DevOps or similar tooling and has had experience using and writing pipelines.

What you can expect from us:

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Ride-to-Work scheme
• Social clubs and events

You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website

Disability Statement

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.

Perks

Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. That’s why we offer an award-winning pension – it’s what we’re good at – plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer; even the odd massage. And if they’re feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant. Discover more of People's Partnership's employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career.