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Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People. JBRP1_UKTJ

Would you like the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, delivering digital services that reach over 50 million users? Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are looking for Software Engineers to join their friendly and supportive engineering community. You will work with the latest cloud technologies and in agile delivery teams building clean, secure and accessible services that make a real difference to the UK public. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea with a salary of £39,163 plus excellent Civil Service benefits and over 28% employer pension contribution. OPEN SESSION To find out more about the role, the digital team and what it's like to work at DVLA, we are hosting a Teams familiarisation session on Wednesday 22 of July at 12PM. This will be an opportunity to meet the team and ask any questions you may have. Continue with the application link for bookng instructions. About Role DVLA delivers some of the UK's most widely used digital services, supporting millions of people who apply for driving licences, tax vehicles or make vehicle enquiries each year. As a Software Engineer, you will join an agile delivery team working alongside senior and lead engineers to build, improve and operate secure, accessible and reliable services at national scale. Current deliveries include: Two major programmes of work, modernising our drivers and vehicles services and systems. Entirely new services including a new customer portal, mobile digital driving licence and identity platform. The DVLA digital payment service that helps us collect around 6 billion pounds a year. New versions of key driving licence services that will help us to reduce paper forms, reduce waiting times and to enable all of our customers to transact digitally. You will also be a part of the new electronic Vehicle Excise Duty programme, a legislative digital service being delivered by DVLA to modernise how Vehicle Excise Duty is administered and delivered digitally. It's an exciting time to join and contribute to a high-impact digital programme. Technology stack No specific technology experience is essential, DVLA are open to transferable skills and a willingness to learn: Core services: Java, Spring Boot and OpenAPI Front-end: Ruby on Rails, React and reusable UI components Serverless: Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Step Functions and DynamoDB Architecture: Event-driven architecture patterns AI tooling: AI coding assistants used responsibly to support software delivery Responsibilities Developing Software to meet user needs. Following Best Practice Guidelines and help to improve those Guidelines. Writing clean, secure and well-tested code. Coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues. Operating the services they build and identify issues in production. Essential skills Experience working as a software engineer across multiple projects, developing software using a variety of technologies and tools. Experience coding in one or more languages (i.e Java, Ruby, C#, Python, TypeScript or similar) Ability to work in a team to build, test and deliver features or services. Awareness of CI/CD and good software delivery practices. Passion for clean, secure, well-tested code and continuous learning. Experience delivering services using a public cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud or a motivation to develop these skills. Benefits: Alongside your salary of £39,163 (£35,663 plus a Recruitment Retention Allowance of £3,500) Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes 28.9% of the base salary towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Best in class learning and development tailored to your role (desired certifications expensed plus training days) An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues Generous employer contribution of 28.97%, depending on chosen pension scheme Digital communities with clear career frameworks On-site gym plus personal training available (membership applies) On-site nursery, restaurants and coffee bar 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), increasing by 1 each year (up to 30) & 1 extra day for the King's birthday Free parking A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a minimum of 60% of their time in the office over a month, with flexibility dependent on balancing business and individual needs Further Information: This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years. DVLA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. 60% Swansea office attendance (typically 3 days / week) Why join? Joining DVLA gives you the opportunity to work on digital services used by millions of people across the UK, as part of a friendly and supportive engineering community. The team values collaboration, good engineering practice and creating an environment where people can keep learning and develop their skills. You'll have the chance to work with the latest cloud-based, serverless and AI-enabled technologies, with support to gain certifications in areas such as AWS and Java. Apply now or contact Inspire People in complete confidence.

Help build and operate reliable, scalable and secure digital services that support businesses across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong software engineering capability (either experience of Python development or a desire to develop Python expertise), experience building applications hosted on cloud platforms, expertise within a modern cloud engineering environment. and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a National salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (£67,547 to £83,778 for London) plus 29% Pension and Civil Service Benefits. Salary awarded based on technical skills assessed at interview. Shape the Future of Cloud Engineering at DBT The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the digital platforms and services that support this mission. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for developing, operating and improving cloud-based platforms and services used across DBT and wider government. Working across Python development, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and automation, you'll help improve reliability, developer experience and service performance while supporting critical business services used by thousands of users. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will: Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to work more efficiently. Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development. Work closely with development teams to provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines. Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Support teams to adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance, reliability and user impact. Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs. Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management. Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring across the engineering community. Contribute to improving security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform. Essential skills for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include: Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. Experience of building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well-tested infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking. Strong communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible, hybrid working with employees typically spending 2-3 days per week in the office. Offices located in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Salford. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional training, certifications and technical development opportunities. A culture encouraging inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle to work and wider Civil Service benefits. Why Join DBT? Join a highly collaborative engineering team where you'll work across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation and developer enablement. You'll have the opportunity to develop new skills, gain industry certifications and contribute to modern cloud engineering challenges that support services used across government. The team encourages experimentation, continuous learning and new ideas, giving engineers the freedom to improve services, solve complex problems and shape future platform capabilities. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're a software engineer, cloud engineer, DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer looking to work on modern cloud platforms while building services that support businesses across the UK, apply today via Inspire People.

Help build and operate reliable, scalable and secure digital services that support businesses across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong software engineering capability (either experience of Python development or a desire to develop Python expertise), experience building applications hosted on cloud platforms, expertise within a modern cloud engineering environment. and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a National salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (£67,547 to £83,778 for London) plus 29% Pension and Civil Service Benefits. Salary awarded based on technical skills assessed at interview. Shape the Future of Cloud Engineering at DBT The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the digital platforms and services that support this mission. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for developing, operating and improving cloud-based platforms and services used across DBT and wider government. Working across Python development, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and automation, you'll help improve reliability, developer experience and service performance while supporting critical business services used by thousands of users. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will: Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to work more efficiently. Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development. Work closely with development teams to provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines. Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Support teams to adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance, reliability and user impact. Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs. Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management. Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring across the engineering community. Contribute to improving security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform. Essential skills for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include: Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. Experience of building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well-tested infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking. Strong communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible, hybrid working with employees typically spending 2-3 days per week in the office. Offices located in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Salford. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional training, certifications and technical development opportunities. A culture encouraging inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle to work and wider Civil Service benefits. Why Join DBT? Join a highly collaborative engineering team where you'll work across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation and developer enablement. You'll have the opportunity to develop new skills, gain industry certifications and contribute to modern cloud engineering challenges that support services used across government. The team encourages experimentation, continuous learning and new ideas, giving engineers the freedom to improve services, solve complex problems and shape future platform capabilities. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're a software engineer, cloud engineer, DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer looking to work on modern cloud platforms while building services that support businesses across the UK, apply today via Inspire People.

Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People. JBRP1_UKTJ

Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People.

Help build and operate reliable, scalable and secure digital services that support businesses across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong software engineering capability (either experience of Python development or a desire to develop Python expertise), experience building applications hosted on cloud platforms, expertise within a modern cloud engineering environment. and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a National salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (£67,547 to £83,778 for London) plus 29% Pension and Civil Service Benefits. Salary awarded based on technical skills assessed at interview. Shape the Future of Cloud Engineering at DBT The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the digital platforms and services that support this mission. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for developing, operating and improving cloud-based platforms and services used across DBT and wider government. Working across Python development, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and automation, you'll help improve reliability, developer experience and service performance while supporting critical business services used by thousands of users. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will: Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to work more efficiently. Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development. Work closely with development teams to provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines. Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Support teams to adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance, reliability and user impact. Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs. Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management. Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring across the engineering community. Contribute to improving security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform. Essential skills for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include: Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. Experience of building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well-tested infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking. Strong communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible, hybrid working with employees typically spending 2-3 days per week in the office. Offices located in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Salford. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional training, certifications and technical development opportunities. A culture encouraging inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle to work and wider Civil Service benefits. Why Join DBT? Join a highly collaborative engineering team where you'll work across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation and developer enablement. You'll have the opportunity to develop new skills, gain industry certifications and contribute to modern cloud engineering challenges that support services used across government. The team encourages experimentation, continuous learning and new ideas, giving engineers the freedom to improve services, solve complex problems and shape future platform capabilities. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're a software engineer, cloud engineer, DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer looking to work on modern cloud platforms while building services that support businesses across the UK, apply today via Inspire People.

Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People.

Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People.

Help build and operate reliable, scalable and secure digital services that support businesses across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong software engineering capability (either experience of Python development or a desire to develop Python expertise), experience building applications hosted on cloud platforms, expertise within a modern cloud engineering environment. and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a National salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (£67,547 to £83,778 for London) plus 29% Pension and Civil Service Benefits. Salary awarded based on technical skills assessed at interview. Shape the Future of Cloud Engineering at DBT The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the digital platforms and services that support this mission. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for developing, operating and improving cloud-based platforms and services used across DBT and wider government. Working across Python development, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and automation, you'll help improve reliability, developer experience and service performance while supporting critical business services used by thousands of users. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will: Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to work more efficiently. Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development. Work closely with development teams to provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines. Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Support teams to adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance, reliability and user impact. Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs. Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management. Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring across the engineering community. Contribute to improving security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform. Essential skills for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include: Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. Experience of building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well-tested infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking. Strong communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible, hybrid working with employees typically spending 2-3 days per week in the office. Offices located in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Salford. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional training, certifications and technical development opportunities. A culture encouraging inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle to work and wider Civil Service benefits. Why Join DBT? Join a highly collaborative engineering team where you'll work across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation and developer enablement. You'll have the opportunity to develop new skills, gain industry certifications and contribute to modern cloud engineering challenges that support services used across government. The team encourages experimentation, continuous learning and new ideas, giving engineers the freedom to improve services, solve complex problems and shape future platform capabilities. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're a software engineer, cloud engineer, DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer looking to work on modern cloud platforms while building services that support businesses across the UK, apply today via Inspire People.

Help build and operate reliable, scalable and secure digital services that support businesses across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong software engineering capability (either experience of Python development or a desire to develop Python expertise), experience building applications hosted on cloud platforms, expertise within a modern cloud engineering environment. and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a National salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (£67,547 to £83,778 for London) plus 29% Pension and Civil Service Benefits. Salary awarded based on technical skills assessed at interview. Shape the Future of Cloud Engineering at DBT The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the digital platforms and services that support this mission. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for developing, operating and improving cloud-based platforms and services used across DBT and wider government. Working across Python development, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and automation, you'll help improve reliability, developer experience and service performance while supporting critical business services used by thousands of users. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will: Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to work more efficiently. Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development. Work closely with development teams to provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines. Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Support teams to adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance, reliability and user impact. Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs. Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management. Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring across the engineering community. Contribute to improving security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform. Essential skills for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include: Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. Experience of building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well-tested infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking. Strong communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible, hybrid working with employees typically spending 2-3 days per week in the office. Offices located in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Salford. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional training, certifications and technical development opportunities. A culture encouraging inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle to work and wider Civil Service benefits. Why Join DBT? Join a highly collaborative engineering team where you'll work across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation and developer enablement. You'll have the opportunity to develop new skills, gain industry certifications and contribute to modern cloud engineering challenges that support services used across government. The team encourages experimentation, continuous learning and new ideas, giving engineers the freedom to improve services, solve complex problems and shape future platform capabilities. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're a software engineer, cloud engineer, DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer looking to work on modern cloud platforms while building services that support businesses across the UK, apply today via Inspire People.

Help build and operate reliable, scalable and secure digital services that support businesses across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong software engineering capability (either experience of Python development or a desire to develop Python expertise), experience building applications hosted on cloud platforms, expertise within a modern cloud engineering environment. and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £67,547 to £83,778 for London) plus 29% Pension and Civil Service Benefits. Salary awarded based on technical skills assessed at interview. Shape the Future of Cloud Engineering at DBT The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the digital platforms and services that support this mission. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for developing, operating and improving cloud-based platforms and services used across DBT and wider government. Working across Python development, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and automation, you'll help improve reliability, developer experience and service performance while supporting critical business services used by thousands of users. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will: Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to work more efficiently. Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development. Work closely with development teams to provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines. Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Support teams to adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance, reliability and user impact. Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs. Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management. Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring across the engineering community. Contribute to improving security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform. Essential skills for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include: Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. Experience of building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well-tested infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking. Strong communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible, hybrid working with employees typically spending 2-3 days per week in the office. Offices located in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Salford. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional training, certifications and technical development opportunities. A culture encouraging inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle to work and wider Civil Service benefits. Why Join DBT? Join a highly collaborative engineering team where you'll work across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation and developer enablement. You'll have the opportunity to develop new skills, gain industry certifications and contribute to modern cloud engineering challenges that support services used across government. The team encourages experimentation, continuous learning and new ideas, giving engineers the freedom to improve services, solve complex problems and shape future platform capabilities. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're a software engineer, cloud engineer, DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer looking to work on modern cloud platforms while building services that support businesses across the UK, apply today via Inspire People.

Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People.

Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £67,547 to £83,778 (London) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People.

Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People.

Become part of a mission-driven digital team helping to build reliable, secure and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (London £67,547 to £83,778,) depending on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Shape Reliable Digital Services at the Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that enable this mission. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead, you will play a key role in leading engineers while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of reliable, secure and scalable platform services that underpin critical digital products and services. As a Senior SRE Squad Lead you will: Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. Essential skills for the Senior SRE Squad Lead include: Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week in the office. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional qualifications, certifications and technical training. An inclusive culture that encourages learning, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle-to-work and wider Civil Service benefits Why Join DBT? This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering in a modern cloud environment. You'll work alongside experienced SRE and DevOps professionals, helping shape platform strategy, improve service reliability and support the delivery of critical digital services across government. The team is actively investing in observability, service-level management, platform automation, developer experience and cloud engineering. You'll join a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning and the freedom to explore new ideas, while making a tangible impact on services used across the Department for Business and Trade. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're an experienced Site Reliability Engineering leader who wants to remain close to technology while helping engineers thrive and delivering services that matter, apply today via Inspire People.

Help build and operate reliable, scalable and secure digital services that support businesses across the UK. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong software engineering capability (either experience of Python development or a desire to develop Python expertise), experience building applications hosted on cloud platforms, expertise within a modern cloud engineering environment. and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. Based from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a National salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (£67,547 to £83,778 for London) plus 29% Pension and Civil Service Benefits. Salary awarded based on technical skills assessed at interview. Shape the Future of Cloud Engineering at DBT The Department for Business and Trade has a clear mission: to grow the economy by helping businesses invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK. DBT's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the digital platforms and services that support this mission. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for developing, operating and improving cloud-based platforms and services used across DBT and wider government. Working across Python development, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and automation, you'll help improve reliability, developer experience and service performance while supporting critical business services used by thousands of users. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will: Build and maintain shared service products enabling developers to work more efficiently. Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code to support platform and tooling development. Work closely with development teams to provide and improve platform tooling, including monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and CI/CD pipelines. Build, maintain and improve reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. Support teams to adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. Contribute to observability across services, helping teams better understand performance, reliability and user impact. Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs. Support live service operations, including incident response, troubleshooting and problem management. Share knowledge and provide coaching and mentoring across the engineering community. Contribute to improving security, resilience and compliance practices within the platform. Essential skills for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include: Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. Experience of building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well-tested infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking. Strong communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible, hybrid working with employees typically spending 2-3 days per week in the office. Offices located in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Salford. Full-time, part-time and flexible working options. A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with service. Three paid volunteering days every year. Learning and development tailored to your role. Access to professional training, certifications and technical development opportunities. A culture encouraging inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Employee benefits including cycle to work and wider Civil Service benefits. Why Join DBT? Join a highly collaborative engineering team where you'll work across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation and developer enablement. You'll have the opportunity to develop new skills, gain industry certifications and contribute to modern cloud engineering challenges that support services used across government. The team encourages experimentation, continuous learning and new ideas, giving engineers the freedom to improve services, solve complex problems and shape future platform capabilities. This role requires SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer withdrawn. If you're a software engineer, cloud engineer, DevOps engineer or Site Reliability Engineer looking to work on modern cloud platforms while building services that support businesses across the UK, apply today via Inspire People.

AI Engineer - Transform Government Communications with Cutting-Edge AI. Are you passionate about leveraging AI to drive impactful change? We are seeking an AI Engineer with experience in Large Language API's (from 2021), Generative AI and Python, to play a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing AI products for Government. This role is fully remote and Inside IR35. 6 Month contract. Why Apply: 1. Innovative Impact: Be part of a team that has successfully launched Assist, an award-winning service that saves users an average of three hours per week. Assist is a business-critical tool for over 6500 Civil Servants across more than 300 public sector organisations. 2. Future-Focused: Engage with an exciting roadmap that includes developing synthetic AI-driven audiences and personalisation capabilities. Your work will directly contribute to the next generation of AI solutions within the public sector. 3. Collaborative Environment: Work alongside Developers, Data Scientists, User Researchers, and a Product Manager in an agile setting. Your contributions will be integral to the iterative development of a leading AI product. Key Responsibilities: - Maintain and iterate a web API using FastAPI, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). - Develop improvements to Assist, focusing on data ingestion, UI updates, and agentic possibilities. - Design and deliver new capabilities, such as conversational AI-powered synthetic audiences. - Collaborate with a Product Manager and other Software Developers to organise and complete tasks. - Contribute to technical decision-making, including Generative AI solutions around Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and prompt engineering. - Document and maintain Agile project responsibilities. - Develop features around sentiment analysis, data ingestion, and synthetic audience creation. Skills and Experience: - Proven experience in building Large Language Model-based applications incorporating tool usage and information retrieval. - Proficiency in Python programming. - Experience administering Amazon Web Services accounts. - Ability to take ownership of the entire feature development life cycle, from development and testing to deployment. - Experience in agile product delivery, working within a small interdisciplinary team. Be at the forefront of transforming government communications through AI. Your expertise will help shape a product that delivers real impact for the public, making a tangible difference in the efficiency and effectiveness of government services. For further information, contact Andrew Medhurst at Inspire People. Inspire People is acting as an employment business to the end user and candidates.

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for an experienced Python Developer to support essential tooling and systems across DBT. This role is ideal for a Back End Python developer looking for career growth and be exposed to cloud native systems with an SRE touch to join a team that ensures DBT's digital services work as users expect, working with development teams giving them the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines. £55,400 to £74,600 (including allowances) plus excellent Civil Service benefits and pension. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham or Salford. DBTs Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas. As a senior SRE developing Python, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines. You'll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You'll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota. The Tech Stack includes: Python and Django framework Serverless compute (Lambda) Amazon Web Services Azure Jenkins and AWS Codepipelines Terraform & CloudFormation Kubernetes Elastic Container Service (ECS) Elasticsearch PostgreSQL Sentry Redis Essential Skills and Experience You should be able to demonstrate: Experience and fluency in Python, writing clean and effective code. Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud. Ability to build code-defined, reliable, and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems (eg, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi). Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP Networking. Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure changes. Desirable Skills and Experience While not essential, it would be ideal if you have demonstrable skills and experience of: Experience coding infrastructure (ie, Terraform, CloudFormation). Experience in defining and measuring Service Level Objectives. Experience in observability driven development. Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open Source components. In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits: Salary of £54,400 to £74,600 (including allowances) including annual allowance depending on location and experience Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service An excellent Civil Service pension scheme. If you are a Python Developer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Systems Administrator looking to enhance your career and make a difference across an expanding function, then apply today or contact Alison Whitehead at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information. Further Information: This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for User Researchers to champion the needs of DBT's users and help teams to design and deliver better services quickly, with less risk, and at lower cost. Salary between £48,981 - £65,600 plus excellent Civil Service benefits. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh. As a Lead User Researcher, reporting to the Head of User Research, you will be helping to reinvigorate the User Research function in DBT, as part of a broader mission to champion the needs of users. User Researchers are key figures in DBT's digital teams. They help teams develop a deep understanding of the people - citizens, businesses, or government - who use DBT's services. Their findings enable teams to design and deliver better services quickly, with less risk, and at lower cost. The User Researcher function is looking to increase their influence and impact by developing agile, pragmatic ways of working, that help teams meet the CDDO service standards while reflecting the delivery pace of the department; looking at how they set and assure research standards, how innovate their approaches, and support teams to understand and respond to user needs. Find out more on the DBT User Research blogs. In your day-to-day role as a Lead User Researcher you will: . Help plan research programmes, working with management teams and Delivery Managers to ensure a shared understanding of priorities, playing an active role in matching researchers to requirements . Oversee the work of user researchers to ensure work is meeting GDS/CDDO service standards and is being delivered pragmatically and to a high quality, intervening if research falls below expected standards . Take the lead on key research about complex services and strategic issues and synthesise findings to generate strategic insights and identify gaps in understanding . Be an advocate for agile, user-focused research and work with stakeholders to highlight the benefits of operating this way . Lead on staff recruitment, both permanent civil servants and contractors . Manage the professional development of current staff, and the capability assessments in the UR profession Essential Skills and Experience You should be able to demonstrate essential skills and experience of: . Working with management teams and stakeholders to understand business needs and aligning research prioritisation and delivery to these needs . Planning, designing and delivering user research projects and programmes in complex, challenging contexts . Managing, mentoring or leading a team, ensuring they are performing against delivery goals and working to develop their capability . Providing oversight and quality assurance of multiple user research projects at the same time . Effectively advocating for the user and for good user research, advising stakeholders and building their buy-in of the value of user-centred practice . Responding to delivery pressures of an agile environment, demonstrating good professional judgement, flexibility and pragmatism In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits: Salary of £48,981 to £65,600 (including allowances) including annual allowance depending on location and experience Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service An excellent Civil Service pension scheme. If you are a User Researcher looking to enhance your career and make a difference across an expanding function, then apply today or contact Alison Whitehead at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information. Further Information: This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.