Senior DevOps - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
| Posting date: | 20 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £70,730 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London: £64,300 - £70,730, National: £60,300 - £66,330. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £20,100. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 February 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 386970/1 |
Summary
The Senior DevOps (SRE) is responsible for improving the reliability of our platforms and services. Your role is not only to work with existing platforms and services, but also contribute to the reliable design and build of new ones, working with our architects and standards. You will also consider the security of platforms and services, monitoring as necessary.
You will support long or short-term discovery within teams and with developers, helping them understand design constraints, and workforce/cost implications. You will advise on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, ensuring those new users are able to deploy with appropriate speed. You will help teams use observability tooling effectively to ensure highly available systems. As necessary you may be working with a team long term to ensure effective working and maintain overall workflows.
The Senior DevOps (SRE) will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.
Tools and Technologies we use:
We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Home Office including:
- Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power Platform
- Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
- Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, Neo4J, Amazon Athena
- DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Dynatrace
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- supporting teams to effectively build, improve and deploy reliable and secure services
- leading the build of new or improved shared tooling to help teams automate and maximise reliability
- spotting instances where teams are not using best practice and advising on how to improve
- supporting engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines
- helping teams improve their integration approaches; increasing reliability and the value delivered to users
Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.
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