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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Inspire People - **Location:** Manchester, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £63,824.0 - £80,158.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Cloudformation, Code Testing, Terraform, Programming Languages - **Published:** September 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2960352244-2 ## About the Role The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior SRE Squad Lead with experience leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 depending on location (London £67,547 to £83,778) and technical skills assessed at interview., * Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or strong mentoring experience. * Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. * Experience of working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, applying modern DevOps and SRE practices. * Experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. * Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. * Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. ## Description * Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing team culture. * Build strong working relationships with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet business and user needs. * Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices, guiding teams to adopt approaches that support reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement. * Coach, mentor and support engineers across DDaT, contributing to a supportive and diverse engineering community. * Design, build and maintain reliable, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches. * Enable teams to develop effective observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting that support proactive service management. * Work with teams to define and embed Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets in a pragmatic and user-focused way. * Support the development and continual improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent and low-risk delivery of changes. * Oversee live service reliability, supporting teams through incident and problem management while encouraging a learning-focused, blameless culture. * Ensure security, resilience and compliance considerations are understood and embedded into engineering practices. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) - [Infrastructure as Code: The Developer's Secret Weapon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1221-infrastructure-as-code-the-developer-s-secret-weapon) - [Crypto-secure Data Management with In-Database Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/632-crypto-secure-data-management-with-in-database-blockchain) - [Leading with Reliability: Applying SRE Principles to Build Stronger Engineering Organizations](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100185-leading-with-reliability-applying-sre-principles-to-build-stronger-engineering-organizations) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Fullstack Developer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/251-fullstack-developer-salary-uk) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Software Engineer Salary in The UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/231-software-engineer-salary-in-the-uk) - [IT Salaries in UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/288-it-salaries-in-uk)