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# Site Reliability Engineering Manager

- **Company:** Capital One
- **Location:** Nottingham, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Working Model 2D
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=15ad2892c8e3c611

## About the Role

* You'll have experience in leading and supporting an engineering team to achieve operational excellence in support of technical and business objectives.
 * You'll have excellent knowledge of building and managing critical applications.
 * You're able to motivate and organise a team to manage the mandatory aspects of running applications in a highly regulated environment, whilst providing encouragement and support to improve technical and non-technical processes to make those aspects as lightweight and effective as possible.
 * You're passionate about developing great engineering talent.
 * You'll demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

What you'll get to learn (previous experience would be advantageous)

 * Working with the cloud/AWS and the opportunities that it brings.
 * Solving real world problems and being comfortable working in a complex regulated environment.
 * Previous experience:
 * An in date AWS Certification, for example Cloud Practitioner, Associate Architect or Associate Developer

## Description

This is a critical leadership role for an experienced manager with a proven track record in developing technical staff, driving service excellence, and implementing significant reliability improvements within complex, large-scale, highly regulated systems. The successful candidate will be a hands-on leader, deeply invested in applying engineering principles to operations and software development problems, committed to motivating their team to design and deliver Java based service improvements at scale through their systems.

What you'll do

 * You'll lead a cross-functional group of software engineers focussed on the effective management and optimisation of applications, maintaining and improving reliability for our customers, whilst ensuring sustainability for the engineers themselves through automation and innovation.
 * Coach and nurture your engineers on how to achieve their technical, business and personal goals.
 * Collaborate with Senior Software Engineering managers to deliver improvements in support of the technical roadmap and customer satisfaction.
 * Ensure platforms are performant, reliable, scalable and secure.
 * Enhance the engineering and agile delivery processes with the team.


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