Lead Site Reliability Engineer - UK Government

Job Description

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for International Trade (DIT) and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to lead a team of site reliability engineers,driving the adaption of best practices and responsible for managing DITs platform hosting. As the Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will influence DITs future hosting strategy, helping to develop the teams roadmap of work and lead the support of severalservices offerings including CI/CD, Account Management, Containerisation, Network Connectivity, Cloud Cost Optimisation, Service Performance and Availability. £72,000 to £88,00 (including allowances) plus excellent Civil Service benefits. Salary is dependenton location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh or Belfast. DITs Digital, Data and Technology team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas.Working with development teams to create reusable components, enabling service delivery at pace, you will automate the oversight of systems at scale, covering a hybrid cloud environment, including but not limited to AWS, GovUK PaaS, & Azure. You will get to constantly push boundaries in an environment free of heavy legacy, driven by curiosity, social purpose, diversity of thought, entrepreneurship, and the aspiration to offer an incredible experience to all our users. Find out more on DITs blog,Digital Trade. In your day-to-day role as the Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will:* Set the SRE teams technical direction, working with the technology leadership team. * Provide technical leadership & guidance to the SRE team through coaching and mentoring. * Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice to develop the teams capability. * Identify and lead on modernization initiatives through continuous improvement. * Give development teams the tools for their job, including infrastructure, APM, exception, log aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines. * Collaboratively develop the future hosting strategy. * Actively lead the support of service offerings (Account Management, Security, CI/CD, Automation, Containerization, Service Performance & cloud Infrastructure). * Ensure security, stability, and capacity are embedded in services deployments. * Champion the adoption of emerging technology to automate tasks & deployments. * Solve complex issues using root cause analysis, progressing opportunities to improve reliability, security, capability of infrastructure, application, and site services.Essential Skills and ExperienceYoull have demonstrable skills and experience of:* Team leadership: managing workload, coaching, and mentoring technical staff. * Setting the direction for technical teams, and liaising with colleagues to establish requirements and identify, propose, initiate work. * Identifying good practices, sharing experiences, and championing your teams agenda, acting as the voice of the team. * Working with cloud technology and the use of orchestration tools, developing infrastructure as code on top of cloud computing services. * Deploying & managing CI/CD pipelines. * Identification of process optimization opportunities and leading teams to deliver service improvements. * Experience of information security, designing, quality-reviewing and quality-assurance solutions with security controls embedded. * Designing and reviewing systems, selecting appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively.In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:* Salary of £72,000 to £88,000 (including allowances) including annual allowance depending on location and experience * Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh or Belfast. * Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service * An excellent Civil Service pension scheme. If you are an experienced Site Reliability Engineer looking to enhance your career and make a difference across a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Dasha Pecekova or Andrew Medhurst at Inspire Peoplein complete confidence for further information. Assessment and Interview

Keyskills :
DevOpsCI/CD"site reliability engineer"