SRE Technical Lead - SC Cleared
F5 Consultants
Site Reliability Engineering Technical Lead - SC Cleared
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Reading area - Hybrid working
Up to £105,000 +bonus
Active SC clearance required
We're looking for an experienced SC Cleared SRE Technical Lead to take a leading role within a major UK Critical National Infrastructure programme.
This is a senior technical leadership position for someone who can combine strong Kubernetes and OpenShift expertise with genuine Site Reliability Engineering experience.
You'll act as the technical authority for SRE across multiple teams and suppliers, owning reliability standards and helping ensure complex, business-critical platforms remain stable, scalable and resilient.
What you'll be doing
Define and drive SRE strategy, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability standards
Provide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and OpenShift environments
Drive automation across monitoring, incident response, recovery and remediation
Shape observability, capacity management and operational readiness practices
Act as a senior technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releases
Lead reliability reviews, toil reduction and blameless post-incident improvements
Govern reliability-focused IaC, GitOps and CI/CD practices
Mentor Senior SREs and engineers, raising engineering standards across multiple teams and suppliers
What we're looking for
Strong commercial experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift
Proven SRE/reliability engineering experience within large-scale production environments
Experience defining or working with SLAs, SLOs and error budgets
Strong observability experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or OpenTelemetry
Strong Infrastructure as Code and GitOps experience - ideally Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD and/or Tekton
Experience across multi-cloud or hybrid environments
Strong CI/CD and automation experience
Ability to provide technical leadership, influence engineering teams and mentor others without relying on formal line management
Active SC clearance
Experience with Istio, Red Hat ACM/ACS, Submariner or enterprise Postgres would be advantageous. xrnqpay
What's on offer
Up to £105,000 + bonus
Hybrid working in the Reading area
Opportunity to become the SRE technical authority on a major Critical National Infrastructure programme
Modern Kubernetes/OpenShift environment with genuine scope to shape reliability engineering practices
Extensive professional development, certifications and long-term career progression
Flexible benefits and a strong focus on employee wellbeing
RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Scroll down the page to see all associated job requirements, and any responsibilities successful candidates can expect.
Reading area - Hybrid working
Up to £105,000 +bonus
Active SC clearance required
We're looking for an experienced SC Cleared SRE Technical Lead to take a leading role within a major UK Critical National Infrastructure programme.
This is a senior technical leadership position for someone who can combine strong Kubernetes and OpenShift expertise with genuine Site Reliability Engineering experience.
You'll act as the technical authority for SRE across multiple teams and suppliers, owning reliability standards and helping ensure complex, business-critical platforms remain stable, scalable and resilient.
What you'll be doing
Define and drive SRE strategy, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability standards
Provide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and OpenShift environments
Drive automation across monitoring, incident response, recovery and remediation
Shape observability, capacity management and operational readiness practices
Act as a senior technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releases
Lead reliability reviews, toil reduction and blameless post-incident improvements
Govern reliability-focused IaC, GitOps and CI/CD practices
Mentor Senior SREs and engineers, raising engineering standards across multiple teams and suppliers
What we're looking for
Strong commercial experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift
Proven SRE/reliability engineering experience within large-scale production environments
Experience defining or working with SLAs, SLOs and error budgets
Strong observability experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or OpenTelemetry
Strong Infrastructure as Code and GitOps experience - ideally Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD and/or Tekton
Experience across multi-cloud or hybrid environments
Strong CI/CD and automation experience
Ability to provide technical leadership, influence engineering teams and mentor others without relying on formal line management
Active SC clearance
Experience with Istio, Red Hat ACM/ACS, Submariner or enterprise Postgres would be advantageous. xrnqpay
What's on offer
Up to £105,000 + bonus
Hybrid working in the Reading area
Opportunity to become the SRE technical authority on a major Critical National Infrastructure programme
Modern Kubernetes/OpenShift environment with genuine scope to shape reliability engineering practices
Extensive professional development, certifications and long-term career progression
Flexible benefits and a strong focus on employee wellbeing
RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Reference: WJ-799_26590009