SRE Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer to join a client SRE team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will drive adoption of SRE best practice across our cloud estate. By utilising both your soft skills and technical experience, you will work with teams to ensure our standards and governance is met by onboarding our services into the cloud, through a dedicated assessment stage gate process. In turn, ensuring our applications satisfy all the required operational and security needs for running in production. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability and performance of our applications and infrastructure. The SRE team will put you in the position to work with application teams across the department on developing reliable and secure solutions to provide to citizens across the UK. You will lead by example, providing technical direction and supporting other SREs within your team. You will work with development teams from the design phase to help them use good practice and department standards when building their application infrastructure. Additionally, responsibilities of the role will include: Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.
Design and develop the techniques for improving application reliability, run books, knowledge transfer across teams, and ongoing SRE strategy within your Functional and Professional Communities.
Work collaboratively with development teams and provide guidance around best practice and ensure monitoring of applications is enabled.
Push a mindset change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership, SRE best practice and the importance of the integrity and maintenance of the Live Service.
Manage the error budget agreed with the product owner for the application and ensure that work is balanced in alignment with it.
Act as the focal point for the investigation and resolution of major or complex incidents for the service, ensuring people with the right skills and expertise are proactively available to respond effectively.
Assess the impact of change requests in consultation with stakeholders, providing technical expertise and authorising the implementation of subsequent changes.
Coach and mentor application development and operations engineers in the practice and techniques of SRE.
Conduct reviews for all high priority and major incidents ensuring they are done quickly and published.
Routinely seek views and capture ideas from stakeholders and team members for improvements and encourage collaboration and innovation.
Provide on-call support to help restore services, through dedicated run books or technical experience.
Help to reduce toil and increase automation; by developing reliability to ensure we have a reduction of the time to live, and cost spend on repetitive tasks.
Participation in out-of-hours on-call incident support on a rota basis is a requirement for this role.
Job Title: SRE Engineer
Location: Manchester, UK
Job Type: Contract
Trading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Maxis 2, Western Road, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom. No. 2876353. Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, Talentis Solutions, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands. If you apply, your personal data will be processed as described in the Allegis Group Online Privacy Notice available at access our Online Privacy Notice, which explains what information we may collect, use, share, and store about you, and describes your rights and choices about this, please go to are part of a global network of companies and as a result, the personal data you provide will be shared within Allegis Group and transferred and processed outside the UK, Switzerland and European Economic Area subject to the protections described in the Allegis Group Online Privacy Notice. We store personal data in the UK, EEA, Switzerland and the USA. If you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please visit the "Contacting Us" section of our Online Privacy Notice at for details on how to contact us. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity, such as a password and user ID if there is an account associated with your request, or identifying information such as your address or date of birth, before proceeding with your request. If you are resident in the UK, EEA or Switzerland, we will process any access request you make in accordance with our commitments under the UK Data Protection Act, EU-U.S. Privacy Shield or the Swiss-U. xehkeey S. Privacy Shield.
Design and develop the techniques for improving application reliability, run books, knowledge transfer across teams, and ongoing SRE strategy within your Functional and Professional Communities.
Work collaboratively with development teams and provide guidance around best practice and ensure monitoring of applications is enabled.
Push a mindset change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership, SRE best practice and the importance of the integrity and maintenance of the Live Service.
Manage the error budget agreed with the product owner for the application and ensure that work is balanced in alignment with it.
Act as the focal point for the investigation and resolution of major or complex incidents for the service, ensuring people with the right skills and expertise are proactively available to respond effectively.
Assess the impact of change requests in consultation with stakeholders, providing technical expertise and authorising the implementation of subsequent changes.
Coach and mentor application development and operations engineers in the practice and techniques of SRE.
Conduct reviews for all high priority and major incidents ensuring they are done quickly and published.
Routinely seek views and capture ideas from stakeholders and team members for improvements and encourage collaboration and innovation.
Provide on-call support to help restore services, through dedicated run books or technical experience.
Help to reduce toil and increase automation; by developing reliability to ensure we have a reduction of the time to live, and cost spend on repetitive tasks.
Participation in out-of-hours on-call incident support on a rota basis is a requirement for this role.
Job Title: SRE Engineer
Location: Manchester, UK
Job Type: Contract
Trading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Maxis 2, Western Road, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom. No. 2876353. Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, Talentis Solutions, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands. If you apply, your personal data will be processed as described in the Allegis Group Online Privacy Notice available at access our Online Privacy Notice, which explains what information we may collect, use, share, and store about you, and describes your rights and choices about this, please go to are part of a global network of companies and as a result, the personal data you provide will be shared within Allegis Group and transferred and processed outside the UK, Switzerland and European Economic Area subject to the protections described in the Allegis Group Online Privacy Notice. We store personal data in the UK, EEA, Switzerland and the USA. If you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please visit the "Contacting Us" section of our Online Privacy Notice at for details on how to contact us. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity, such as a password and user ID if there is an account associated with your request, or identifying information such as your address or date of birth, before proceeding with your request. If you are resident in the UK, EEA or Switzerland, we will process any access request you make in accordance with our commitments under the UK Data Protection Act, EU-U.S. Privacy Shield or the Swiss-U. xehkeey S. Privacy Shield.