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Job description

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! We create digital services, data tools and technology for businesses to prosper around the world. Have a look at our video! Our Digital, Data and Technology team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas. You'll get to constantly push boundaries in an environment free of heavy legacy, driven by curiosity, social purpose, diversity of thought, entrepreneurship, and the aspiration to offer an incredible experience to all our users. Find out more on our blog, Digital Trade. Can we rely on you to make us more reliable? The Department for International Trade (DIT) helps businesses export and invest, and we need Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to make sure our internet services work as users expect. .

Responsibilities

• As SRE you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines.
• You'll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them.
• You will help build and scale our global product platform.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Demonstrable experience and fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code.
• Ability to build code defined, reliable and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems.
• Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Knowledge of Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
• Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure changes.

Desirable Skills

• PaaS, Kubernetes, Django, oauth2/saml2 integrations in Python.
• Cloud experience with either Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services or Azure.
• Experience coding infrastructure (i.e., Terraform).
• Experience in defining and measuring Service Level Objectives.
• Experience in observability driven development.
• Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open Source components.

Further Information

Worktime: To be confirmed. Our tech stack includes: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Python, PostgreSQL, Sentry. Redis, Jenkins.