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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** DWP Digital
- **Location:** Blackpool, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £16,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Reliability Engineering, Data Logging, Scripting
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-site-reliability-engineer/dwp-digital-job107477498

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

Your 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 and efficiently. You'll also automate repetitive tasks, reduce toil and make sure monitoring is in place so issues are spotted before they become problems.

When major incidents happen, you'll take the lead in coordinating the right people and restoring services fast. You'll manage error budgets, review high-priority incidents and push a culture of engineering ownership across the organisation.


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