Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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Its technology supports multimedia evidence management and emergency contact centre operations for customers around the world. Due to continued growth, my client is expanding its Cloud Platform Engineering function and is looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer. This is a highly hands-on position focused on ensuring that business-critical cloud platforms remain observable, measurable, secure, scalable and reliable. The successful candidate will combine strong Azure engineering expertise with platform automation, observability and operational leadership. Candidates are likely to come from a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering or Cloud Development background. Security requirement: Applicants must have lived in the UK continuously for the past five years and be eligible to obtain NPPV3 and UK Security Clearance. Role Responsibilities Work as part of the Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for protecting and improving production environments. Manage and prioritise a technical backlog of reliability, scalability and operational improvements. Lead investigations into service outages, performance degradation, platform reliability and cloud expenditure. Conduct detailed root-cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are implemented. Identify repetitive operational activities and replace them with sustainable automation. Provide technical leadership and guidance to Cloud Operations, Support, DevOps and Engineering teams. Establish and maintain service level objectives, service level agreements, service level indicators and error budgets. Design and implement monitoring, alerting and dashboarding across cloud platforms and microservices. Deploy and configure observability technologies including Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor and OpenTelemetry. Develop custom application and platform metrics to improve operational visibility. Create advanced queries, dashboards and alerts for distributed microservices. Develop reusable Bicep or Terraform modules for monitoring and cloud infrastructure. Support and improve production Kubernetes environments, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service. Review and optimise platform performance, availability, security and cost. Contribute to cloud architecture, technical scoping and the implementation of scalable platform solutions. Support continuous improvement across deployment, provisioning and operational processes. Help ensure platforms and working practices meet relevant security, governance and compliance requirements. Explore opportunities to use AI-assisted tools to improve automation, troubleshooting and engineering productivity. Essential Skills and Experience At least six years' commercial experience within Site Reliability Engineering or a closely related cloud platform role. Demonstrable experience supporting business-critical cloud platforms and live production services. Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure. Production experience with Kubernetes and containerised workloads, ideally using AKS. Extensive experience in platform engineering, cloud provisioning and observability. Strong monitoring, alerting and dashboarding experience using technologies such as: Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch Experience creating custom metrics, queries, dashboards and alerts for microservices. Advanced scripting or software development skills using PowerShell, Python, C# or a comparable language. Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Bicep, ARM or Terraform. Experience using Git or another version-control platform. Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, Elasticsearch and structured data formats including YAML, JSON and XML. Strong understanding of microservices architecture, cloud platforms and containerisation. Experience defining or working with SLOs, SLAs, SLIs and error budgets. Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills. Experience designing scalable, secure and maintainable cloud solutions. Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, governance and compliance. Experience operating across both transformation projects and live-service environments. Desirable Skills and Experience Azure DevOps pipeline experience covering CI/CD and automated deployment. Experience developing reusable infrastructure and monitoring modules. Familiarity with AI-enabled engineering and automation tools. Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as: ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, FedRAMP Experience providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary cloud, engineering and support teams. A background in regulated, public-sector or security-sensitive environments. Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Apply Spectrum IT Recruitment Limited Banking and Financial Services 23 Jobs The company is part of Company Profile In Short Industry IT & Telecommunications Founded 2008 Location Chilworth, Southampton Company size 11-50 Who We Are Established in 2008,
Spectrum IT is a leading Software and Technology specific recruitment agency, providing
permanent and contract IT resource for businesses. Our team of around 30
employees are based on the University of Southampton Science Park, a key hub
for technology on the South Coast. Who We Can Help Spectrum IT works
with a wide cross section of businesses, from start-ups to multinationals. 95%
of placements are within Software focused businesses, or where Software is key
to the business model. Typically, around 200 different businesses are supported
annually, with more than 900 candidates placed. How We Work We bring together talented
IT professionals with businesses of all sizes. Our extensive experience can
help your business with single hires right through to building large software
development project teams of 50+. Regular engagement with the IT community
enables us to keep up to date with the ever-changing IT landscape. Similar Lead Site Reliability Engineer Jobs Popular with Other Job Seekers Senior Technical Support Engineer NICE South East 1 day ago 3rd Line Support Engineer VIQU IT Recruitment Boatyard Estate, Fareham (PO16), PO16 0BP £300 - 450 per day 5 days ago Infrastructure Platform Engineer Hackajob Ltd Farnborough (GU14) Competitive 1 week ago Cloud & Infrastructure IT Systems Engineer Sanderson Recruitment City of London (EC1) £550 - £650 per day 1 month ago Lead Cloud Operations Engineer NICE London 1 day ago Infrastructure Engineer (DV Cleared) Salt London £70000.00 - £100000.00 per annum 5 days ago Senior Infrastructure Engineer VIQU IT Recruitment Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR £65k - 75k per year 2 days ago Senior Infrastructure Engineer Sanderson Government and Defence Hemel Hempstead (HP1) Negotiable 1 month ago IT Infrastructure Engineer Saab UK Fareham (PO14), PO14 Negotiable 1 week ago Senior Engineer Barhale Leytonstone, East London (E15), E15 2RN Competitive with Benefits 3 days ago Lead Site Reliability Engineer jobs Lead Site Reliability Engineer jobs in Southampton IT jobs IT jobs in Southampton Software Development jobs Software Development jobs in Southampton Jobs in Southampton Full Time jobs Weekend jobs Retail jobs Amazon Warehouse Operative jobs Christmas jobs Night Shift jobs NHS jobs Apprenticeship jobs Warehouse jobs Cleaning jobs No Experience jobs Remote jobs Admin jobs Administration jobs Apprenticeships jobs Tesco jobs Get hired. Find success. Totaljobs About us Careers at Totaljobs Press Partners Privacy policy Terms and conditions Cookies Legal and compliance Accessibility Jobseekers Salary Planner Jobseeker help centre Career advice Recruiters Post job ads Recruiting news Courses Contact us - recruiters Recruit internationally Download App store Play store The Stepstone Group UK Ltd © 2026 We use cookies We use cookies to operate our website, measure how people use our services to help us improve them, enrich usage profiles and personalise the content displayed to you. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising, and analytics partners, who may combine it with other information, to show you relevant ads on other websites, and to measure the performance of our advertising. Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website. If you would prefer us not to use the non-essential cookies, click “Just necessary”, but please be aware that this may impact your experience of our site and the services we are able to offer. Click “Accept” if you’re happy for us to place these cookies. You can change your mind at any time. Store and / or access information on a device Cookies, device identifiers, or other information can be stored or accessed on your device for the purposes presented to you. Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development Ads and content can be personalised based on a profile. More data can be added to better personalise ads and content. The performance of ads and content can be measured. Insights about audiences who have viewed the ads and content can be extracted. Data can be used to build or improve user experience, systems and software. Display third-party content (social networks, videos) Content from social networks and embedded content from third-party providers can be displayed. Identifiers derived from authentications If an identifier is created based on authentication data, such as contact details associated with online accounts you have set up on websites or apps (e.g. email address, phone number) or customer identifiers (e.g. an identifier provided by your telecommunications provider), then this identifier can be used to recognize you across websites, apps and devices if you are logged in with the same contact details. Just Necessary Accept All Cookie Settings You can also exercise your right to object to data processing based on legitimate interests under “Privacy Policy”. Privacy Policy Cookie policy