Senior Site Reliability Engineer - DBT - G7
Location: Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford
This role is part of the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate.
About the Role
We are building a cutting‑edge developer platform in AWS to support DBT services.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will provide the tools and practices that enable development teams to deliver reliable, performant services.
Job Description
* Develop and maintain observability tooling to enhance system monitoring and incident response.
* Streamline deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery.
* Partner with product teams to design and enforce service‑level indicators, objectives, and error budgets.
* Participate in on‑call rota and mentor junior colleagues across DDaT.
Technology Stack
* Amazon Web Services (AWS) – CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Copilot, CloudFormation
* Azure
* Terraform / Pulumi
* Docker, ECS, ECR, OpenSearch
* Python / Django
* PostgreSQL (Amazon RDS)
* Sentry, Redis / Elasticache
Essential Qualifications
* Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
* Experience building code‑defined, reliable infrastructure (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
* Fluent in at least one programming language; clean, effective code.
* Design, analyse and troubleshoot distributed systems.
* Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
* Strong communication skills for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Desirable Qualifications
* Defining and measuring Service Level Objectives through observability.
* Prototyping using existing open‑source components.
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