Lead Site Reliability Engineer

2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Are you an accomplished Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for leadership and AWS innovation? We're partnering with a high-growth technology company that is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team Lead / Technical Lead to join their world-class engineering function. This is not your average technical leadership role — you'll be driving strategic reliability initiatives, shaping cloud infrastructure best practices, and leading a team of talented SREs committed to automation, scalability, and operational excellence. What You'll Be Doing * Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing DevOps/SRE team. * Define and execute the SRE strategy to support scalability, performance, and resilience across critical systems. * Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure – think EC2, RDS, ECS, Fargate, IAM, VPC and beyond. * Champion Infrastructure as Code and drive automation using Ansible (with exposure to Terraform or CloudFormation a plus). * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless, high-availability services. * Lead incident management processes, improve observability, and enforce SLAs/SLOs using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Datadog. * Act as a technical mentor and thought leader within both your team and the broader engineering organisation. What We're Looking For: * Proven leadership experience within SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure teams. * Hands-on mastery of AWS services and cloud-native design patterns (microservices, containers, serverless). * Proficient in Ansible (Terraform knowledge is a strong advantage). * Strategic mindset with a strong grasp of SRE principles. * Track record of mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and enabling high performance. * Solid understanding of monitoring, logging, and incident response. Ready to step into a high-impact leadership role? Apply now or send your CV to [email protected]. *This role is hybrid working – 1 day a week in their Crawley office and does not offer visa sponsorship* Seniority level * Seniority level Not Applicable Employment type * Employment type Full-time Job function * Job function Information Technology * Industries Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at James Chase by 2x Sign in to set job alerts for "Site Reliability Engineer" roles. Southampton, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 6 days ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago Hursley, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago Hursley, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago Hampshire, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago Chilworth, England, United Kingdom 5 months ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 5 days ago Fareham, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago Whiteley, England, United Kingdom 5 days ago Hampshire, England, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago Newbury, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago Winchester, England, United Kingdom 13 hours ago Principal Consultant - Infrastructure/Platform Engineer Newbury, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 3 months ago Southampton, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago Havant, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago Whiteley, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago We're unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI. #J-18808-Ljbffr