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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** DWP Digital
- **Location:** Sheffield, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Reliability Engineering, Data Logging, Scripting, Build Tools
- **Published:** June 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/38399858/

## About the Role

Site Reliability EngineerPay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and a truly great work life balance.DWP. Digital with Purpose.We have a fantastic opportunity to join our community of experts at DWP Digital as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, within one of our SRE teams at the heart of Digital Transformation.We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?Demonstrable experience of reliability engineering including capacity and performance management through monitoring, logging, and alerting.
Demonstrable experience of supporting a Live Service, including live operations, incident management, and continuous improvement. Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based applications in AWS. Demonstrable experience of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Demonstrable experience communicating effectively with stakeholders at multiple levels to provide feedback and support. Demonstrable experience using automation to remove toil with scripting, infrastructure, and configuration as code.You and your roleYour day will be all about making sure our applications and infrastructure are reliable, secure and ready for scale. You'll work closely with development teams from the design stage, helping them build systems that follow best practices and meet department standards.You'll lead by example, mentoring other SREs, guiding teams and driving improvements. A big part of your role will be, creating and maintaining detailed runbooks so incidents can be resolved quickly



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