Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Hybrid – Morley office with homeworking
Package: £70,000 - £80,000 - £6k car allowance, up to 30% bonus, 26 days holiday + flexible benefits

A large-scale tech-driven organisation is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with a strong focus on leadership and team management. Around 70% of this role is about building, mentoring and directing a high-performing SRE team, setting strategy and driving operational excellence. The remaining 30% will be hands-on involvement in AWS-based platforms, automation and performance tuning.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of SRE engineers, setting priorities, providing coaching and creating a culture of reliability and continuous improvement

• Define and own SRE strategy, standards and ways of working across the organisation

• Collaborate with engineering, operations and product teams to ensure seamless delivery and robust systems

• Oversee system reliability, availability and performance across large, business-critical platforms

• Provide technical guidance on automation, monitoring, scalability and incident management

• Support shared CI/CD services (Jenkins, GitLab, Concourse) and ensure AWS platforms meet operational best practice

• Produce regular reporting and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders

Key Requirements

• Strong experience managing or leading engineering/SRE/DevOps teams in a complex environment

• Track record of mentoring, coaching and growing technical teams

• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence at all levels

• Broad technical knowledge: AWS (certified), CI/CD tools, infrastructure as code (CloudFormation/Ansible), containers (ECS or Kubernetes), scripting (Bash/PowerShell) and at least one higher-level language such as Python or TypeScript

• Background in Windows and/or Linux administration; Java exposure a bonus

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Aaron Chiverton