SRE Technical Lead

Salary: £70,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
• Experience working in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, and Tempo
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps tools such as Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, and Tekton
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation
• Proven ability to operate as a technical leader in complex, multi-team environments
• Must be eligible for SC Clearance

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement our SRE strategy, standards, and best practices, including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Embed reliability principles into our platform and service design from the outset
• Lead key SRE practices such as reliability reviews, operational readiness, and toil reduction
• Drive automation across our monitoring, incident response, and remediation processes
• Act as our technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releases
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews and ensure continuous improvement
• Establish observability and capacity management practices using modern tooling
• Identify and eliminate systemic reliability risks and operational inefficiencies
• Collaborate with our engineering, platform, security, and operations teams across multiple vendors
• Provide coaching and mentorship to engineers, raising SRE capability across our organisation

Technologies:

• ArgoCD
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GitOps
• Grafana
• Helm
• Kubernetes
• Kustomize
• OpenTelemetry
• OpenShift
• Prometheus
• Security
• DevOps
• Embedded

More:

We are hiring an experienced SRE Technical Lead for a senior, client-facing leadership role based in Reading on a hybrid UK-based working pattern, combining home, office, and client site work. We operate across complex, large-scale platforms and are looking for someone who will act as the technical authority for Site Reliability Engineering, driving reliability, availability, and operational excellence across multi-team and multi-vendor environments. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, and requires eligibility for SC Clearance.

last updated 31 week of 2026