Head of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Client of Mark Williams; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Mark Williams is partnering with an organisation to appoint a Head of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to establish and lead its SRE function in Dubai. This is a hands-on, high-visibility leadership role to build a high-performing team and define reliability practices across cloud platforms.

You will drive incident management, define SLIs/SLOs, and push automation, partnering with engineering, infrastructure and product teams to improve resilience, scalability and operational

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering.
• Experience building or scaling an SRE function within a large enterprise or technology organisation
• Strong hands on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud native technologies
• Proven experience supporting both cloud native applications and legacy enterprise workloads
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar
• Strong scripting or programming experience using languages such as Python, Go, or Bash

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Site Reliability Engineering function, defining the vision, operating model and best practices
• Develop SRE principles, standards and processes to improve platform reliability, availability and performance
• Lead the adoption of cloud native technologies while supporting both modern cloud applications and legacy workloads
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure and product teams to improve system resilience, scalability and operational efficiency
• Drive automation across monitoring, deployment, incident management and platform operations
• Define and measure SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to improve service reliability
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
• Mentor and develop engineers, creating a strong engineering culture focused on reliability and operational excellence

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Cloud/DevOps strategy

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker/containers

CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Python

Go

Bash

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job description

We are partnering with an organisation that is looking to appoint a Head of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to establish and lead its SRE function. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly technical leader who enjoys building teams, defining best practices and driving reliability, scalability and operational excellence across modern cloud platforms. We are looking for someone who can remain hands on while developing a high performing SRE capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Site Reliability Engineering function, defining the vision, operating model and best practices
• Develop SRE principles, standards and processes to improve platform reliability, availability and performance
• Lead the adoption of cloud native technologies while supporting both modern cloud applications and legacy workloads
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure and product teams to improve system resilience, scalability and operational efficiency
• Drive automation across monitoring, deployment, incident management and platform operations
• Define and measure SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to improve service reliability
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
• Mentor and develop engineers, creating a strong engineering culture focused on reliability and operational excellence

Key Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering
• Experience building or scaling an SRE function within a large enterprise or technology organisation
• Strong hands on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud native technologies
• Proven experience supporting both cloud native applications and legacy enterprise workloads
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar
• Strong scripting or programming experience using languages such as Python, Go, or Bash