Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: £55,000 - 55,000 per year

Requirements:

• Cloud experience with Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Exposure to building code-defined and reliable infrastructure on cloud platforms, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Working knowledge of one or more programming languages, with the ability to write clean and effective code.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
• Ability to understand user impact from infrastructure or application changes and a strong drive to improve the end-user experience.
• Strong communication skills when working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively engage with development teams and use initiative to develop the tools they need.
• Build and support application performance monitoring, exception logging, metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD pipelines.
• Work alongside senior team members to engage product teams on service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets.
• Contribute to building and scaling shared tooling for the platform.
• Participate in an on-call rota.

Technologies:

• AWS
• OpenSearch
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Datadog
• Django
• Docker
• ElasticSearch
• GitHub
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• PostgreSQL
• Pulumi
• Python
• Redis
• TCP/IP
• Terraform
• Unix
• Web
• DevOps
• dbt

More:

We are a team at the heart of the global economy, and we are partnering with Inspire People to offer an exciting Site Reliability Engineer opportunity within our digital services function. We ensure our services work as users expect by supporting development teams with the tools they need. Our tech stack includes AWS and Azure, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipelines/CodeBuild, Terraform, Docker, ECS, ECR, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Python, Django, PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS, Datadog, Logstash, and Redis/Elasticache. We offer excellent Civil Service benefits and pension, flexible hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Birmingham, Salford, Edinburgh, or Belfast, and a culture that encourages inclusion and diversity. Benefits include tailored learning and development, condensed hours, annual leave starting at 25 days rising to 30 days, three paid volunteering days a year, and an employee benefits programme including cycle to work. This role can only be worked from within the UK, and we operate a hybrid pattern with 2-3 days a week in the office.

last updated 33 week of 2026