Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Company: Capital One
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Location: London
Job Description:

About the Role

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Site Reliability Engineering Manager

This role requires a proven leader to develop technical staff, drive service excellence, and implement significant reliability improvements within complex, large‑scale, highly regulated systems.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead a cross‑functional group of software engineers focused on managing and optimizing applications to maintain and improve reliability for our customers.
  • Coach and nurture engineers to attain their technical, business, and personal goals.
  • Collaborate with Senior Software Engineering managers to deliver improvements aligned with the technical roadmap and customer satisfaction.
  • Ensure platforms are performant, reliable, scalable, and secure.
  • Enhance engineering and agile delivery processes with the team.

What We’re Looking For

  • Experience leading an engineering team to achieve operational excellence in support of technical and business objectives.
  • Excellent knowledge of building and managing critical applications.
  • Ability to motivate and organize a team to manage mandatory aspects of running applications in a highly regulated environment, while encouraging improvements to make processes lightweight and effective.
  • Passion for developing great engineering talent.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work across engineering to maximize resourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

Learning & Development

Opportunity to work with Cloud/AWS technologies and solve real‑world problems within a complex regulated environment. Possessing an AWS certification (e.g., Cloud Practitioner, Associate Architect, or Associate Developer) is advantageous.

Location & Working Model

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. We offer a hybrid working model: three days a week in the office (Tues, Wed, Thu) and the rest of the time from home.

Benefits

  • Contribute to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation.
  • Engage with public‑cloud challenges around scale, security, availability, and performance.
  • Spend 10% of your time on cutting‑edge innovative projects that shape the future of work.
  • Strong career progression with training programmes and external provider support.
  • Core benefits: pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement, private medical insurance.
  • Flexible benefits: season‑ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme, enhanced parental leave.
  • Well‑equipped facilities, including open‑plan workspaces, gym, restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms.

Equal‑Opportunity Statement

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com. All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.

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Posted: May 31st, 2026