Site Reliability Engineer - Manchester

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Gloucester  BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments. Job Title:  Site Reliability Engineer Requisition ID: 122662 Location: Manchester - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Grade:  GG08 – GG10 Referral Bonus: £5,000 About the role The National Security business in Gloucester is growing and there are an increasing number of opportunities to work with a range of National Security clients to provide solutions that have a real impact. Be part of a growing team that not only delivers for its clients but also gives back to the community with plenty of opportunities to get involved with local community engagement and outreach activities to help build tech and cyber skills in the region. What you could be doing for us: As an SRE, fundamentally you will be doing work that has historically been done by an operations team, but using software and systems engineering expertise to use automation to reduce human labour, limiting traditional manual operations work (incident tickets, on-call etc.) to no more than half of the SRE team's time. Core role accountabilities include: Supporting and maintaining essential service that support core mission applications, proactively enhancing their availability, performance and stability; Finding innovative solutions to problems rather than undertaking repetitive work, automating everything you can. You will work alongside product teams, advising them of good practice in how to design and build systems, learning from what you know works well. And you will never be asked to spend more than 50% of your time on support (otherwise the product team supports the excess work until the support work returns to 50% or less); You will instrument applications where they don’t have sufficient monitoring in place, and use the output of it to demonstrate the improvements your team are making on a daily basis. You will be well versed in the relationship between software and infrastructure, understanding the characteristics of systems that enable them to be scalable and resilient to failure, and how to get the best out of the infrastructure they are deployed to; Participating in the wider DevOps/SRE community within the organisation; What background are we looking for? Typically have experience in the following: Software development in Java and web technologies, e.g. JavaScript and HTML Familiarisation with database technologies such as Elastic, Mongo Know your way around Linux and Windows command lines, e.g. Bash and PowerShell Hands on experience with cloud…