Lead Site Reliability Engineer, fully remote
1 week ago
What to Expect We are looking for an accomplished Lead Site Reliability Engineer with deep technical expertise, proven operational leadership, and a strategic mindset. You’ll take ownership of designing and scaling infrastructure systems with reliability, performance, and security baked in from day one. This role is built for an SRE leader who’s driven to evolve systems architecture, mentor engineers, and steer the long-term reliability posture of a scaling technology organisation. You’ll collaborate closely with product and platform teams to define standards and drive cross-functional engineering excellence.
Architect and operate complex infrastructure environments, with a preference for AWS (Azure experience also valued)
Lead infrastructure strategy—ensuring resiliency, performance, and scalability across services
Reliability Engineering & Observability
Set and enforce SLIs/SLOs across key services, and lead incident response and operational review practices
Build and maintain automation frameworks for self-healing, failover, and recovery operations CI/CD and DevOps Strategy
Mentor engineering teams on containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes), ensuring best practices across environments
Guide secrets, configuration, and environment strategy across staging and production ecosystems
Security, Compliance & Governance
Champion compliance-aligned engineering processes and governance frameworks
Mentor SREs and DevOps engineers, fostering technical growth and reliability first thinking
Promote a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement across engineering team
Business Knowledge:
Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure and service reliability within a fast-paced technology organisation.
Familiarity with compliance and governance frameworks relevant to cloud operations (e.g., Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS preferred, Azure beneficial).
Influential mentor and collaborator across engineering disciplines.
Resilient under pressure, with strong incident management and problem-solving skills.
Advocates for automation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence
Structured career development framework
~25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Enhanced company pension scheme
~ Discretionary annual bonus award
~ Private medical insurance and health cash plan
~ Life assurance benefit
~ Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
~ Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
~ Generous parental leave policies
~ A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
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