Job Vacancy Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Morley

VIQU IT

CoreData

Job position Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Permanent

As soon as possible

£70k-80k

Morley, United Kingdom

Published on 28/07/2025

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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

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

20 - 99 employees

Recruitment agency

At VIQU IT, we’re focused on bringing a knowledgeable and honest approach to IT recruitment, devoting ourselves to improving the quality of life for our candidates through excellent IT job opportunities, our clients with high-quality customer service, and our team through continual support and training. As an IT recruitment agency based in Birmingham and Southampton, our recruitment team works with everyone from global conglomerates to innovative SMEs, identifying high-quality IT contractors and permanent employees, in addition to providing consultancy services for IT project-based work.

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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

VIQU IT