Head of Site Reliability Engineering & Infrastructure Location: Manchester (Hybrid) Contract: Permanent, Full-time Salary: Up to £80,000 + Share Options Incentive Scheme
Morson Edge have partnered with a Global Tech oragnsation in their search for a Head of Site Reliability Engineering & Infrastructure to lead their SRE and Infrastructure capability within a modern, AWS-based environment.
This role suits a senior engineering leader who enjoys staying close to the technology, while also shaping direction, standards, and long-term reliability strategy. You won't be expected to live in the weeds every day — but you will be comfortable engaging at a technical level when it matters.
Based in Manchester, you'll work closely with engineering, product, and security leadership to ensure our platform remains resilient, scalable, and ready for growth.
The Role You'll be responsible for both the day-to-day reliability of the platform and the evolution of our SRE and infrastructure practices over time.
Your responsibilities will include:
Leading the SRE and Infrastructure function, setting direction and priorities
Balancing hands-on technical involvement with strategic planning and leadership
Shaping and owning our AWS infrastructure and reliability roadmap
Defining and embedding SRE best practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, and capacity planning
Establishing and evolving SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering teams
Acting as a senior technical voice in architecture discussions and operational decision-making
Supporting incident response and post-incident reviews, with a focus on long-term improvement
Developing, mentoring, and empowering a high-performing engineering team
Essential Skills & Experience Experience in a senior SRE, Infrastructure, or Platform leadership role
Strong, practical experience operating production systems in AWS
Solid Linux systems and networking expertise (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing)
Background designing or supporting highly available, distributed systems
Good understanding of SRE principles and how to apply them pragmatically
Experience with automation and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
Ability to operate comfortably at both a technical and strategic level
Nice to Have Container and orchestration experience (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
Experience scaling platforms, teams, or operational maturity
Exposure to security, compliance, or regulated environments
Why Join Them? Salary up to £80,000 plus a share options incentive scheme
A leadership role with a healthy balance of strategy and technical influence
Modern AWS and Linux-based platform
Engineering-led culture that values reliability and thoughtful decision-making
Manchester-based role with flexible/hybrid working
InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
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