Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared)

Duration: 12 Months

Rate: £675 per day

Location:

London or Manchester & remote (hybrid working)

IR35 Status:
Inside

Start: ASAP

A Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) is required for our government department to be part of a multidisciplinary team developing and supporting the clients data hub which provides access to a variety of public sector data.

• To be part of a multidisciplinary team developing and supporting their data hub
• Write infrastructure as code using terraform or Cloud Formation to ensure their infrastructure is consistent, reusable and reliable
• Deploy and configure observability tools to enable the teams to identify and respond to operational issues quickly and effectively
• Build CI/CD pipelines to enable the team to get code into production quickly and reliably
• Provide daily support for their platform and tools to ensure they remain available, secure and robust
• Participate in on‑call rotations if necessary
• Able to solve complex and interesting problems
• Also to share your knowledge and expertise with your peers and the wider team to drive consistency and develop a culture of openness and learning
• Provide technical leadership within the team and work alongside other team members to identify the best approaches and solutions

As the Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) you will possess the following skills and experience:

• A deep understanding of Linux operating system internals and comfortable working with Linux virtual machines or containers
• Proficiency in Python
• Any knowledge of Ruby is desirable.
• Strong experience working with infrastructure technologies such as databases, web servers, DNS, CDNs, reverse proxies, message queues and load balancers
• Experience of building and maintaining services in the cloud (AWS)
• Extensive experience of creating infrastructure as code using Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Experience of using container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS or serverless application design with AWS Lambda
• Experience supporting large production services
• Git experience
• Experience of creating pipelines in a CI/CD tool like Github Actions or AWS Code pipeline
• A strong understanding of security principles and how to keep large operational services secure
• Any previous technical leadership experience e.g: have been a technical team lead or been responsible for a technical initiative.

To apply for this role  to Joanne Stanley:

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