About this role
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements: Hold active SC (Security Check) clearance.Be a sole UK national.Strong technical expertise gained within enterprise-scale environments.Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift.Experience designing and supporting hybrid and multi-cloud platforms.Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio.Strong hands-on experience with observability tooling including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and OpenTelemetry.Infrastructure as Code and GitOps expertise using tools such as Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD and Tekton.Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines with a focus on reliability engineering.Familiarity with Red Hat ACM/ACS, Submariner networking and enterprise databases such as PostgreSQL.A proven track record of providing technical leadership across complex, multi-vendor environments. Responsibilities: Define and drive our SRE strategy, standards, SLAs, SLOs and error budgets.Embed reliability engineering principles into our platform and service design.Lead the adoption of core SRE practices including reliability reviews, operational readiness and toil reduction.Drive automation across monitoring, incident response, recovery and remediation.Govern reliability-focused Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling.Identify and remove systemic causes of operational overhead while improving scalability, resilience and operability.Act as our senior technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releases.Lead blameless post-incident reviews and ensure measurable service improvements.Define and oversee observability, monitoring and capacity management practices.Ensure our SRE approaches align with security, governance and compliance requirements.Mentor and coach senior engineers, helping improve SRE maturity across engineering teams.Provide technical leadership through influence rather than direct line management.Work closely with Cloud, Platform, Security and Operations teams. Technologies: ArgoCDCI/CDCloudGitOpsGrafanaHelmIstioKubernetesKustomizeOpenTelemetryOpenShiftPostgreSQLPrometheusSecurityDevOps More:
We are offering a SRE Technical Lead role on a hybrid basis across the UK, combining office, client site and home-based working. This is a senior technical leadership position with a salary of up to £100,000 plus a 5% annual bonus. You will lead reliability engineering across large-scale, business-critical platforms in complex, multi-vendor enterprise environments, working with modern cloud-native technologies and collaborating closely with our engineering, delivery, cloud, platform, security and operations teams.
last updated 31 week of 2026