Location: Hybrid - Morley office with homeworking
Package: £70,000 - £80,000 - £6k car allowance, up to 30% bonus, 26 days holiday + flexible benefits
A large-scale tech-driven organisation is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with a strong focus on leadership and team management. Around 70% of this role is about building, mentoring and directing a high-performing SRE team, setting strategy and driving operational excellence. The remaining 30% will be hands-on involvement in AWS-based platforms, automation and performance tuning.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of SRE engineers, setting priorities, providing coaching and creating a culture of reliability and continuous improvement
Define and own SRE strategy, standards and ways of working across the organisation
Collaborate with engineering, operations and product teams to ensure seamless delivery and robust systems
Oversee system reliability, availability and performance across large, business-critical platforms
Provide technical guidance on automation, monitoring, scalability and incident management
Support shared CI/CD services (Jenkins, GitLab, Concourse) and ensure AWS platforms meet operational best practice
Produce regular reporting and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders
Key Requirements
Strong experience managing or leading engineering/SRE/DevOps teams in a complex environment