SRE Technical Lead

• 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 the 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 to improve SRE maturity across engineering teams.

Technologies:

• ArgoCD
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GitOps
• Grafana
• Helm
• Istio
• Kubernetes
• Kustomize
• OpenTelemetry
• OpenShift
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Security
• DevOps, We are hiring an SRE Technical Lead to take ownership of the reliability, availability and operational excellence of critical platforms within complex, multi-vendor environments. This is a senior technical leadership role where you will act as the technical authority for Site Reliability Engineering, working closely with stakeholders, engineering teams and delivery partners to drive reliability across large-scale cloud platforms. The position is hybrid in the UK, with office, client site and home-based working. We offer a salary of up to £100,000, a 5% annual bonus, and the opportunity to lead reliability engineering across large-scale, business-critical platforms while working with modern cloud-native technologies and complex enterprise environments. Please note that active SC clearance and sole UK nationality are mandatory requirements for this position.

• Hold active SC (Security Check) clearance.
• Be a sole UK national.
• Have strong technical expertise gained within enterprise-scale environments.
• Have deep knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Have experience designing and supporting hybrid and multi-cloud platforms.
• Have experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio.
• Have strong hands-on experience with observability tooling including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
• Have Infrastructure as Code and GitOps expertise using tools such as Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD and Tekton.
• Have experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines with a focus on reliability engineering.
• Have familiarity with Red Hat ACM/ACS, Submariner networking and enterprise databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Have a proven track record of providing technical leadership across complex, multi-vendor environments.