Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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