SRE Technical Lead

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

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

Responsibilities:

• 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 our 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 improve SRE maturity across engineering teams.
• Provide technical leadership through influence rather than direct line management.
• Work closely with Cloud, Platform, Security and Operations teams.

Technologies:

• ArgoCD
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GitOps
• Grafana
• Helm
• Istio
• Kubernetes
• Kustomize
• OpenTelemetry
• OpenShift
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Security
• DevOps

More:

We are offering a SRE Technical Lead role on a hybrid basis across the UK, combining office, client site and home-based working. This is a senior technical leadership position with a salary of up to £100,000 plus a 5% annual bonus. You will lead reliability engineering across large-scale, business-critical platforms in complex, multi-vendor enterprise environments, working with modern cloud-native technologies and collaborating closely with our engineering, delivery, cloud, platform, security and operations teams.

last updated 36 week of 2026