Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford
If you would like to find out more about the role, the Site Reliability Engineering team and what it’s like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Monday 17th February at 12:30pm. Please click here to book your spot.
About us
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.
The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission.
About the role
We are on a mission to build a new cutting-edge developer platform in AWS and migrate existing DBT services from GOV.UK PaaS in the process.
Can we rely on you to make us more reliable? We need Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to make sure our internet services work as users expect.
Main responsibilities
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.
You’ll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You’ll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.
Specific projects the team are working on include rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response and streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery.
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