SRE Lead in United Kingdom

Job description

Lead Site Reliability Engineer | Fully Remote | AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform | High-Scale SaaS | £90K

Company Overview

High-growth SaaS platform operating at national scale, powering critical services for thousands of customers daily. Engineering-led, cloud-native, and focused on delivering highly reliable, scalable distributed systems. This will be a senior leadership role driving SRE strategy, platform scalability, and operational excellence. You’ll own reliability, performance and automation across multiple engineering teams, evolving the platform to handle rapid growth.

Key Responsibilities & Experience

• Define and scale SRE practices across product teams.
• Ideally from a technical / SWE background
• Own system design for reliability, scalability and performance.
• Lead platform reliability, availability and incident management.
• Drive automation, IaC, observability and continuous improvement.
• Guide root cause analysis and implement resilience strategies.
• Mentor and technically lead SRE / Platform engineers.
• Support large-scale re-architecture, capacity planning and FinOps alignment.

Core Technical Environment

• Cloud: AWS (high-throughput systems: 1,000–6,000+ req/sec)
• IaC: Terraform, configuration management
• Containers: Kubernetes, Docker (ECS beneficial)
• Languages: Python, Go or similar
• Observability: Prometheus, DataDog or equivalents
• CI/CD: Modern automated pipelines
• Systems: Distributed systems, microservices, resilience engineering

Lead Site Reliability Engineer | Fully Remote | AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform | High-Scale SaaS | £90K

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

United Kingdom

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Published at

29-10-2025

Profession type

Logistics jobs

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English