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 SLOs, SLAs, 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 Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for Site Reliability Engineering across complex, large-scale platforms
• Drive reliability, availability, and operational excellence across multi-team and multi-vendor environments
• Define and implement SRE strategy, standards, and best practices, including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Embed reliability principles into platform and service design from the outset
• Lead reliability reviews, operational readiness activities, and toil reduction initiatives
• Drive automation across monitoring, incident response, and remediation
• Act as the 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 engineering, platform, security, and operations teams across multiple vendors
• Provide coaching and mentorship to engineers to raise SRE capability across the organisation

Technologies

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

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We are hiring an experienced SRE Technical Lead for a senior, client-facing leadership role based in Reading with a hybrid working model across home, office, and client sites in the UK. We offer the opportunity to shape Site Reliability Engineering across complex, large-scale platforms, combining hands-on technical delivery with strategic leadership. In this role, you will help embed SRE practices across the full service lifecycle, improve reliability and operational excellence, and work closely with multi-team and multi-vendor environments.

last updated 25 week of 2026

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