DevOps - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
| Posting date: | 03 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,720 to £52,130 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London: £48,720 - £52,130, National: £44,720 - £47,850. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £12,680. New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 February 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 389091/2 |
Summary
The DevOps (SRE) is responsible for improving the reliability of our platforms and services. Your role is proactive, ensuring relevant metrics are being measured and reliability improvements are identified and implemented when necessary. This will ensure the reliability and availability of services for users.
You will also advise developers on how to use platforms and tools effectively, reviewing and advising on their use of CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling. You may also work to deliver new platform tooling.
Recruitment events
We are hosting an Engineering online recruitment event on Thursday 6th February 2025 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Where you can find out more about our roles, working for the organisation and how to apply. Register your interest here: Home Office Events I Eventbrite
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, Jenkins, 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
- building 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 to design new services; helping to define test 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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