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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Bist - **Location:** Edinburgh, UK - **Salary:** £49,734.0 - £60,993.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, 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 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/44381974/ ## About the Role 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 Benefits If you join us, you will get: learning and development tailored to your role a flexible, hybrid working environment with options like condensed hours a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27% annual leave starting at 25 days rising to 30 days with service three paid volunteering days a year an employee benefits programme including cycle to work More about BIST This role can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas. If you are based in London, you will receive London weighting. BIST employees are contracted to work in a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in the office. Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by BIST, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered. Please note, following a recent change to the Machinery of Government, the Department for Business and Trade ( DBT) will be renamed to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) as of 20th July 2026. BIST will connect the UK's world-class science and technology base directly to the businesses, places and workers that will drive good growth across the country. Such changes will not affect the selection process for this campaign however we wanted to take this opportunity to advise you of the recent changes to our department. TPBN1_UKTJ ## Description 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 Skills and experience required for the Site Reliability Engineer includes: Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud. 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