Head of Performance & Reliability Engineering Full-Time - Hybrid (3 days in Cambridgeshire) Up to £95,000 + Bonus
This is an exceptional opportunity to join a major organisation at a pivotal stage in their digital transformation. As Head of Performance & Reliability Engineering
You'll shape strategy, lead performance testing and chaos engineering initiatives, and embed reliability best practices across engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams. This is a senior, strategic leadership role focused on system excellence, observability, and continuous improvement.
Ideal Candidate:
Proven experience leading Performance Engineering, Reliability, or SRE functions
Deep expertise in performance testing methodologies (load, stress, spike, soak)
Strong hands-on background with LoadRunner and Dynatrace (plus tools such as NeoLoad, k6, or JMeter)
Skilled in chaos engineering, resilience testing, and system scalability
Experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
Strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and microservice architectures
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and embed performance and reliability into the SDLC
Inspirational leader with experience building, mentoring, and enabling high-performing engineering team
What's on Offer?
33 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
Private health cover option
6% matched pension contributions
Funded professional qualifications and L&D opportunities
Life event loan up to £3,000
Discounts on insurance & breakdown cover
About the Role:
Lead the performance and reliability strategy across critical platforms and services
Oversee load, stress, and chaos testing initiatives to ensure systems perform and recover under real-world conditions
Define and drive best practices for observability, monitoring, and APM adoption using tools like Dynatrace
Drive incident reduction, faster recovery (MTTR), and continuous reliability improvements
Champion a culture of performance ownership, ensuring teams build with scalability, stability, and efficiency in mind
Influence technology direction through deep technical insight and strong stakeholder engagements
Reasonable Adjustments:
Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
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