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Location: Hybrid, a minimum of 20% in the London office per month
About Us
Were Nominet a world-leading domain name registry operating at the heart of the UK internet. While we're best known for running .UK domains, our DNS expertise also underpins critical internet infrastructure that government services, including the NHS, rely on.
As a public benefit company, our work has a positive impact on society. Weve donated millions to projects that use technology to improve peoples lives and have committed to delivering £60m worth of support over the next three years.
The Role
We're looking for a hands-on SRE Manager to lead a team responsible for the scalability, reliability, and performance of our Critical National Infrastructure systems. This is a key role within the Technology department where you'll guide an SRE team, contribute directly to engineering efforts, and help shape the future of how we deliver world-class infrastructure.
Youll combine strategic thinking with a bias for action, leading people, solving complex challenges, and ensuring our systems are stable, secure, and evolving with the needs of the business.
What youll be doing
Leading, mentoring, and developing a SRE team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
Contributing hands-on to engineering efforts, modelling SRE best practices around automation, incident response, and system scalability
Driving strategic alignment between SRE initiatives and wider business and technology goals
Overseeing the implementation of reliable and scalable infrastructure, leveraging cloud technologies and infrastructure-as-code tooling
Ensuring operational excellence through robust incident response processes, on-call management, and service postmortems
Collaborating closely with engineering and product teams to embed reliability into our software delivery lifecycle
About You
Experience leading or managing an SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering team
Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
Strong understanding of monitoring and logging systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
Nice to have:
Experience with Critical National Infrastructure or public sector systems
Ability to build and scale team capability through coaching and structured development
Familiarity with modern software development practices and how SRE fits within agile team
What to expect next
* 1st stage: Introduction call with a member of the TA team (30-45 mins)
* 2nd stage: Technical interview (60 mins)
* 3rd stage: Values interview (60 mins)
Working at Nominet
Our people make things happen, but our values are our compass as a company, guiding our day-to-day work and building our culture. They reflect that we're strongest when we're proactive and pull together, while underlining the importance of a "glass half full" mindset and aiming to keep things simple for success.
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What we offer
Early Finish Friday Working week of 34 hours with full-time pay. (Finish at midday on Friday)
30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the ability to purchase an additional 5 days
Bupa private healthcare + Employee Assistance Programme
Electric vehicle scheme with on-site charging points
Rewards platform with access to discounts at hundreds of shops, restaurants etc.
Medicash discounts on routine healthcare including optical, dental and much more
Company and individual performance-based annual bonus
Diversity Statement
We're passionate about creating a workplace where every individual is valued, respected, and empowered. Somewhere we can benefit from all forms of diversity and discover the true value in our differences. If there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know
Security Statement
Nominet is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of the internet and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment by participating in the relevant security and screening processes. All roles working for Nominet will be subject to a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. Some roles due to the nature of their work, will require additional security clearance.
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