IT & Software

Site Reliability Engineering Manager (Specialist I - DevOps Engineering)

UST Global

Nottingham · Nottinghamshire · United Kingdom

Overview

As Site Reliability Engineering Manager, you lead a cross‑functional team to enhance the reliability, scalability and security of internally developed applications. You partner with product and engineering stakeholders to improve platform health through observability, automation and continuous improvement. You guide engineers toward technical and personal growth while embedding SRE practices across the business. This role combines hands‑on engineering with people leadership to deliver resilient, high‑performing services.

Responsibilities
  • Lead a cross‑functional group of engineers applying SRE principles to internal applications
  • Improve observability and service automation to reduce operational overhead
  • Identify development opportunities and coach engineers toward goals
  • Troubleshoot architectural and technology challenges and guide solutions
  • Define, implement and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for availability
  • Collaborate with service, product and engineering communities to improve performance
  • Partner with product and engineering managers to manage workload priorities
  • Oversee platforms that are performant, reliable, scalable and secure
  • Estimate, refine and prioritise workload within an agile environment
  • Drive continuous improvement across platform health, compliance and resilience
  • Create opportunities for innovation within the engineering team
  • Strengthen SRE practices across the business with senior stakeholders
Key requirements
  • Experience leading an engineering team and delivering against business objectives
  • Strong background in software and systems engineering and cloud architecture
  • Excellent knowledge of SDLC in cloud-based environments
  • Strong ability to develop and manage RESTful API services using Java or .NET
  • Technical aptitude to understand and troubleshoot complex distributed systems
  • Strong communication and ability to build partnerships across teams
  • Understanding of inner-source collaboration to improve reuse
  • Proven workload management and prioritisation in an agile setting
  • Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills
  • Experience working with multi‑vendor teams
  • Self‑motivated, hands‑on approach to engineering and people management
  • strong communication
  • stakeholder management
  • collaboration
  • cloud architecture
  • distributed systems
  • observability

Reference: WJ-747_30244686

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