Description
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) helps businesses invest, innovate, export and grow across the UK. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate helps to deliver this by designing, building and running the services, platforms and technology that businesses and colleagues rely on every day.
As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers while providing technical leadership across the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, scalable and secure services that underpin critical BIST digital products.
You will:
- Lead and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers, providing technical direction, coaching and support.
- Provide technical leadership across SRE and DevOps, helping teams build reliable, scalable and sustainable services.
- Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches.
- Lead the adoption of effective observability, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting.
- Help teams define and use SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to make informed decisions about reliability and delivery.
- Improve CI/CD and engineering automation to enable safe, frequent and low-risk change.
- Oversee live-service reliability and support effective incident and problem management, promoting a learning-focused and blameless culture.
- Work with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs.
- Coach and mentor engineers and contribute to the wider DDaT engineering community.
- Ensure security, resilience and compliance are embedded into engineering practices.
The salary for this role is GBP 68,732 - 88,423 per year.
Benefits include:
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%