Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead - Up to £110,000 + Bonus & Benefits
Location: Crawley, Hybrid (1 day a week onsite)

Are you ready to lead a high-performing team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of infrastructure and reliability engineering?

We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team Lead / Technical Lead who is passionate about driving operational excellence and has a clear vision for building scalable, resilient systems. In this role, you'll lead from the front; mentoring a team of DevOps Engineers, implementing best-in-class practices, and owning the evolution of cloud infrastructure at a key growth stage in the company's journey.

This is more than a leadership position. It's an opportunity to have a real and lasting impact. Your work will directly influence the reliability and performance of mission-critical platforms and enable the business to scale confidently and securely.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead, inspire, and develop a growing team of DevOps Engineers, setting clear goals and driving team performance.
• Define and deliver the company's SRE strategy, aligning it with wider technical and business goals.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and security teams to ensure operational excellence and seamless delivery.
• Architect, implement, and manage secure, scalable AWS infrastructure with a focus on automation and performance.
• Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containerisation, and cloud-native design patterns.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices that promote continuous improvement and service resilience.
• Act as a trusted voice in technical forums and senior leadership discussions, bringing clarity to complex challenges.

What You Bring:

• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing technical teams.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Fargate, IAM, VPC, etc.).
• Strong skills in automation and configuration management-especially Ansible (Terraform experience a plus).
• Solid grasp of SRE and DevOps principles including CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• A strategic mindset with excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Bonus Skills (Desirable but not essential):

• Exposure to Microsoft Azure.
• Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and regulatory compliance (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2).

What You'll Get:

• Salary up to £110,000 plus bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Hybrid working model (1 day per week onsite in Crawley).
• 25 days holiday (rising with service) + your birthday off.
• EV salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Excellent pension scheme.
• Access to training, development, and career progression in a supportive environment.

Ready to drive real change and help scale a company's cloud infrastructure from the ground up?
Apply now to be a key player in an ambitious and forward-thinking engineering team.

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