Senior Infrastructure Engineer (GRIP) - Cabinet Office - G7

Location

Glasgow, London

About the job

Job summary

The GRIP platform has a large user base, serving thousands of users across 250 public sector organisations. It is a full stack web application that helps government to manage and track its priorities and initiatives, and capture reporting on them, across all government departments, and for consumption by the most senior decision makers. The application has support and visibility at the very highest levels of the organisation. We also help to develop and maintain the government’s Evaluation Registry, which tracks planned and completed evaluations of government’s policies.

We are looking for an infrastructure engineer to join our small engineering team, building and managing this critical part of Government’s tooling. You will have the opportunity to have genuine impact on how Government manages its work and to contribute to its overall effectiveness.

Job description

You will work on the core infrastructure of the application, primarily using a range of AWS services and Cloud-formation to manage our infrastructure. Our core stack includes React, Node.js, and Postgres. You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of these systems. We are seeking a candidate with deep experience in AWS infrastructure management.

Your work will include managing our cloud infrastructure (AWS), monitoring and responding to any performance issues, building and managing CI/CD pipelines, and overseeing testing and deployment processes.

There will also be opportunities to engage directly with stakeholders across government, and to help shape the technical choices we make.

You can expect to have responsibility to:

• Build, manage, and scale reliable, secure, and performant cloud infrastructure, taking responsibility for the quality of your code and configurations.
• Decide and evolve how we structure and manage our data, with a focus on database reliability, security, and scalability.
• Be a confident communicator, able to bridge the gap between the technical and non-technical team members to build the right product.

Person specification

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience managing cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS.
• Experience of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or platform engineering principles and delivering to user needs.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Understanding of infrastructure design principles, including security and high availability.
• Experience of technologies used for web applications, e.g. HTTPS, JSON and CDNs, and of Unix-like operating systems, e.g. Linux and/or Mac OS.
• Experience in building robust and reliable systems that work for multiple users.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new tools and techniques.
• Experience of writing robust code using approaches such as TDD/BDD, unit testing and integration testing.
• Understanding of agile principles and working practices.
• Experience of code reviewing workflows and version control (e.g., Git).

Desirable Experience

• Deeper experience in any of our technology choices.