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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

DSIT • Full-time • United Kingdom • £71.38k - £85.26k / year • 15h ago

Job description

Location: National*

Closing Date: 1st February

Interviews: expected w/c 16th February

Grade: 6

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary:

London: £75,674- £87,875 which may include an allowance up to £12,201

National: £71,381- £83,700 which may include an allowance up to £12,319

Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 13940

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer here at Justice Digital, to lead our site reliability engineering team in HMPPS Digital.

Within the team, you will be helping to build and maintain platforms that underpin the digital services we are delivering. You will work closely with development teams, cloud platforms teams, live service teams and security teams to help maintain and develop services. We use modern best practices like DevOps and agile, use cloud native architectures and prefer modern open-source tools.

This role aligns against the Lead DevOps Engineer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

About Us:

At Justice Digital, we're dedicated to leveraging technology to drive impactful change across the justice system. As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing access to justice and improving outcomes for users through innovative digital solutions.

Responsibilities: You’ll be working on our acclaimed open-source public services, with user needs at the heart of everything, helping us transform Government for the future. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping define how we do what we do and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly, leading teams of site reliability engineer specialists across teams.

Collaboration: You’ll collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, technical architects and content specialists who share our vision of leveraging technology to transform government services.

Our Tech Stack

Technologies: We use a diverse range of technologies, and we’re seeking individuals who specialise in one or more and are eager to learn new languages and frameworks. Our tech stack includes:

○ Cloud infrastructure: AWS

○ Infrastructure as code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation

○ Containerisation: Docker

○ CI/CD deployments: GitHub Actions, Concourse, CircleCI

○ Application code: Python, Ruby, JavaScript

Learning and Support: Once part of Justice Digital, we'll support you in mastering our tech stack, regardless of your current experience. Explore our GitHub for insights into our technologies and the services we develop and maintain.

Our Community: Join over 150 experienced software and site reliability engineers who form our vibrant engineering community across the MoJ. You’ll have opportunities to mentor junior colleagues and participate in informal support networks with peers. We encourage active engagement in shaping our engineering culture and community.

Career Development: We take pride in our supportive and effective line management. Your skills are highly valued, and we’re committed to helping you expand them within the civil service. You'll have opportunities to move between teams or departments, explore new technologies, and take on increased responsibilities aligned with your career goals.

Explore Further: Dive deeper into our work and culture by visiting our Developer Blog and Justice Digital Blog.

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