Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Drive adoption of SRE best practice across the clients cloud estate and support services through a dedicated assessment and onboarding process.
• Ensure applications meet operational and security requirements for production.
• Provide technical direction and support to other SREs.
• Work with development teams from the design phase to help them follow good practices and departmental standards when building application infrastructure.
• Design and develop techniques to improve application reliability, runbooks, knowledge transfer across teams, and ongoing SRE strategy.
• Collaborate with development teams, provide best-practice guidance, and ensure application monitoring is enabled.
• Promote engineering ownership, SRE best practice, and the integrity and maintenance of live services.
• Manage application error budgets agreed with product owners and balance work accordingly.
• Lead investigations and resolutions of major or complex service incidents, ensuring appropriately skilled people are available to respond.
• Assess the impact of change requests with stakeholders, provide technical expertise, and authorise subsequent changes.
• Coach and mentor application development and operations engineers in SRE practices and techniques.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Support
• Security
• DevOps
• Product Owner, Our central government client is seeking a team of Senior Site Reliability Engineers for a large cloud programme. The role is initially for six months, is remote within the UK, and pays £500 per day inside IR35. You will work with application teams across the department to develop reliable and secure solutions for citizens across the UK. Talent International UK and its subsidiaries act as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.

• Experience working within a public sector environment delivering SRE services
• Valid SC clearance