Site Reliability Specialist

1 month ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Government Digital Service Full time

About the role

The Government Digital Service is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our multidisciplinary service teams. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining resilient, highly available, and secure systems to meet the needs of our users.

Key responsibilities

  • Work with front-end and back-end developers, delivery and product managers, tech writers, and architects to deliver high-quality digital services.
  • Design, build, and maintain infrastructure as code to ensure our infrastructure and deployment pipelines are reusable, repeatable, and reliable.
  • Monitor and instrument our systems to enable our teams to identify and respond to operational issues quickly and effectively.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines to enable our developers to get their code into production as quickly and safely as possible.
  • Act as a digital ambassador, sharing experiences through public speaking and blog posts.
  • Participate in our in-hours 2nd line and out-of-hours support rotas to gain empathy for users and awareness of operational concerns.
  • Share knowledge of tools and practices with your wider team and peers to drive consistency and maintain our high engineering standards.

About us

The Government Digital Service is a part of the Cabinet Office, working at the very centre of government to make user-focused digital transformation happen. We build and maintain common platforms, products, and tools to create great public services that are accessible, inclusive, and easy to use.

What we offer

  • Flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours.
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%.
  • 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days.
  • An extra day off for The King’s birthday.
  • An in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance.
  • Career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development.
  • Paid volunteering leave.
  • A focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme.
  • Job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK.


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