About this role
Salary: £70,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements: Deep expertise in Kubernetes and/or OpenShiftExperience working in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environmentsStrong understanding of SRE principles, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineeringHands-on experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, and TempoStrong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps tools such as Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, and TektonExperience with CI/CD pipelines and automationProven ability to operate as a technical leader in complex, multi-team environmentsMust be eligible for SC Clearance Responsibilities: Define and implement our SRE strategy, standards, and best practices, including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgetsEmbed reliability principles into our platform and service design from the outsetLead key SRE practices such as reliability reviews, operational readiness, and toil reductionDrive automation across our monitoring, incident response, and remediation processesAct as our technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releasesLead blameless post-incident reviews and ensure continuous improvementEstablish observability and capacity management practices using modern toolingIdentify and eliminate systemic reliability risks and operational inefficienciesCollaborate with our engineering, platform, security, and operations teams across multiple vendorsProvide coaching and mentorship to engineers, raising SRE capability across our organisation Technologies: ArgoCDCI/CDCloudGitOpsGrafanaHelmKubernetesKustomizeOpenTelemetryOpenShiftPrometheusSecurityDevOpsEmbedded More:
We are hiring an experienced SRE Technical Lead for a senior, client-facing leadership role based in Reading on a hybrid UK-based working pattern, combining home, office, and client site work. We operate across complex, large-scale platforms and are looking for someone who will act as the technical authority for Site Reliability Engineering, driving reliability, availability, and operational excellence across multi-team and multi-vendor environments. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, and requires eligibility for SC Clearance.
last updated 32 week of 2026