Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: £80,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language.
• Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact.
• Experience building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well-tested infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong software engineering capability, with Python development experience or a desire to develop Python expertise.
• Experience within a modern cloud engineering environment.
• SC clearance eligibility, including being present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to work more efficiently.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development.
• Work closely with development teams to improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Support teams to adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices, including SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance, reliability and user impact.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes.
• Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs.
• Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management.
• Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring across the engineering community.
• Contribute to improving security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Support
• Linux
• Python
• Security
• TCP/IP
• Terraform
• Unix
• DevOps
• dbt

More:

We are the Department for Business and Trade, working in partnership with Inspire People to recruit a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for our Digital, Data and Technology directorate. We build and operate digital platforms and services that support businesses across the UK, with a clear mission to help businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities nationwide. This is a permanent role based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 nationally (£67,547 to £83,778 for London), plus a 29% pension and Civil Service benefits. We offer a flexible, inclusive and collaborative culture with full-time, part-time and flexible working options, annual leave starting at 25 days rising to 30, three paid volunteering days each year, tailored learning and development, access to professional training and certifications, and wider Civil Service benefits. Our team encourages experimentation, continuous learning and continuous improvement while working on modern cloud engineering challenges that support services used across government.

last updated 30 week of 2026