Site Reliability Engineer


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Department for Education

Listed on

10th September 2021

Location

England

Salary/Rate

£36439 - £51538

Salary Notes

New entrants are expected to join on the pay band minimum. Salaries up to £40,297 (National) £44, 538 (London) may be applied, dependent on skills and experience. A non-pensionable allowance of up to £7,000 may also be available.

Type

Permanent

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Here at the Department for Education (DfE), we have a clear vision to create a world-class education, training and care for everyone, whatever their background, so that everyone has the chance to reach their potential and live a more fulfilled life and we are looking for talented people to achieve it. We are currently looking for a number of Site Reliability Engineers to join the team in either Manchester Sheffield or London  Job description
You'll be part of a team that shares a vision of making public services digital by default, simpler, clearer and faster to use. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be using the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you'll develop your skills to build a career as a Site Reliability Engineer. You will be helping to build digital services for a diverse set of users, including Citizens, Teachers, Social Workers and School Professionals - the following are some examples: Teaching Vacancies service (https://teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/) Postgraduate Teacher Training search (https://www.find-postgraduate-teacher-training.service.gov.uk/) Site Reliability Engineer roles at the DfE align with the technical job family in the Government DDaT Profession Capability Framework. More information can be found here. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/development-operations-devops-engineer Technologies The technologies you will be using as a site reliability engineer withing teacher services division at DfE include: GOV.UK Paas, Docker, Linux, Git, Github actions, Azure, Azure Devops, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Powershell, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.
Responsibilities
As a Site Reliability Engineer you will:
Be part of a team that runs and supports Government digital services for teachers. Help automate tasks, deployments, and tests by creating infrastructure as code. Implement resilient, highly available systems. Implement modern software development practices such as CI/CD, and DevOps as well as modern development workflows using GitHub and Azure DevOps. Work in an fully Agile environment. Use development skills to maintain applications as well as create powerful automation and monitoring scripts. Use infrastructure skills including systems and networks to deploy and integrate services in the cloud. With the support of senior SREs and the wider community, learn to build secure, reliable and scalable systems, automate processes to increase delivery efficiency, assist developers to troubleshoot live systems. Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers. Be part of a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance. Essential criteria It is essential that you can demonstrate the following experience and skills in your application:
Experience in software development or scripting, ideally with Ruby, Bash, Powershell or similar.
Experience with troubleshooting web applications.
Experience with Linux or other Unix based operating systems.
Experience building, troubleshooting and automating applications in public cloud based systems.
Basic understanding of networking.
Enthusiasm to learn and share knowledge and work collaboratively in an inclusive and diverse multi-disciplinary team environment. Desirable criteria
Experience using version control (ideally with Git).
Experience in analysing systems performance and configuration.
Experience building, running, optimising Docker container images. Desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of a tie break situation to make an informed decision
Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: A pragmatic approach to troubleshooting
Knowledge of Linux command line
Knowledge of public clouds
Programming logic Full details, application info and benefits of working for DfE can be found by clicking the apply now button. 

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