DWP Digital
About the Role:
Join DWP Digital’s Health & Disability team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining crucial digital solutions used daily by UK citizens. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee production systems to maintain reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Act as the gatekeeper of production systems, maintaining operational excellence.
- Develop and support cloud-based applications in AWS.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage capacity and performance through monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Develop automated solutions to prevent recurring problems using scripting, infrastructure, and configuration as code.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels to provide feedback and support.
- Lead initiatives to automate low-value tasks balancing project delivery demands.
Skills and Expertise:
- Demonstrable experience with automation tools for scripting, infrastructure, and configuration.
- Experience in reliability engineering, capacity, and performance management.
- Proven experience supporting live services.
- Demonstrable experience with cloud platforms and monitoring tools.
- Experience developing and supporting cloud-based applications in AWS.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Java, JavaScript, MongoDB, Docker, JSON, YAML, SQL, Git, GitLab CI, Jsonnet, Libsonnet (preferred, not essential)
Job Facilities/Benefits:
- Competitive salary up to 78,517
- 28.97% employer pension contributions
- Hybrid working model (flexible hours)
- Generous leave package (26-31 days + public holidays)
- Flexible hours and flexi-time options
- Award-winning environment and culture (Employer of the Year 2023, Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023)
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring, and career progression opportunities.
- Discounts, savings on shopping, fun days out
- Interest-free loans for bikes or season tickets
- Time off for volunteering and charitable giving
- I Can Be Me in DWP fostering an inclusive and authentic work environment
Why Join Us:
DWP Digital is a leading UK government department making payments worth over 195bn annually, supporting millions. Join a team of experts using cutting-edge technology to build solutions impacting the lives of nearly every UK citizen daily. Experience extraordinary scale, unique purpose, and significant growth opportunities.