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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Inspire People
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Salary:** £49,734.0 - £60,993.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Unix, Cloud Computing, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Linux, Django Web Framework, Elasticsearch, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Logstash, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Datadog, Pulumi, Google Cloud, Amazon ElastiCache, Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/site-reliability-engineer/inspire-people-job107854721

## About the Role

* Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud.
 * Exposure to building code-defined and reliable infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
 * Working knowledge in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code.
 * Working knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
 * Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure or application changes, including a drive to improve the end user experience at every turn
 * Strong communication skills when dealing with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

## Description

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade ('BIST') and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer to join a team that ensures BIST's digital services work as users expect, working with development teams giving them the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines. London £49,734 to £60,993, National £45,835 to £57,176. (including allowances) plus excellent Civil Service benefits and pension. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington. Birmingham, Salford, Edinburgh or Belfast.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will pro-actively engage development teams and use initiative to develop 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 work alongside senior members of the team to pro-actively engage product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets. You'll contribute towards building and scaling our shared tooling for the platform and participate in an on-call rota.

BIST's tech stack includes:

 * AWS and Azure
 * GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipelines/CodeBuild
 * Terraform
 * Containerisation such as Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and Kubernetes
 * ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
 * Python and Django framework
 * PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
 * Datadog, Logstash
 * Redis/Elasticache


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