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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # SRE Technical Lead - **Company:** Capgemini Sogeti - **Location:** Woking, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, PostgreSQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Prometheus, Istio, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes - **Published:** July 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=27ae827109277d2f ## About the Role You will bring deep technical expertise and credibility in large scale environments, including: * Strong expertise in Kubernetes and OpenShift. * Experience with multi cloud and hybrid architectures, including service mesh (e.g. Istio). * Hands on experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry. * Strong Infrastructure as Code and GitOps experience (Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, Tekton). * Experience with CI/CD automation and reliability focused engineering. * Familiarity with Red Hat ACM/ACS, Submariner networking, and enterprise databases (e.g. Postgres). * Proven ability to lead, influence, and mentor across multi vendor delivery environments. You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, striving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone., To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. ## Description The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Technical Lead is a senior, client embedded technical leadership role and the single point of technical authority for Site Reliability Engineering across assigned platforms or engagements. The role is accountable for the reliability, availability, and operability of services delivered by one or more teams and vendors in complex, multi vendor environments. This role combines strategic reliability leadership with hands on engineering authority. It is distinct from operations management or Principal Engineer roles, owning technical reliability outcomes including release readiness, platform stability, and stakeholder confidence. Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual), employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service) Your role As the SRE Technical Lead, you are the technical authority for SRE practices across all vendors and solution trains, working closely with client stakeholders, Capgemini leadership, and delivery partners. In this role, you will: * Define and enforce SRE strategy, standards, SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets, embedding reliability into service and platform design from the outset. * Lead the implementation of core SRE practices, including reliability reviews, toil reduction, and operational readiness. * Drive automation across monitoring, incident response, recovery, and remediation, governing reliability related IaC, CI/CD, and operational tooling. * Identify and eliminate systemic causes of operational load, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and operable. * Act as the technical escalation point for major incidents and high risk releases, protecting service stability and ensuring blameless post incident reviews lead to measurable improvement. * Define and govern observability and capacity practices so reliability risks are visible, actionable, and proactively managed. * Ensure SRE practices align with service governance, security, and compliance requirements, and contribute to service reviews, release governance, and longer term planning. * Coach and mentor Senior SREs and engineers, raising the overall maturity and consistency of reliability engineering across the organisation. You operate without formal line management, providing technical leadership through influence, and work closely with Principal SREs, Cloud Technical Leads, Platform, Security, and Operations teams. You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, striving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. 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