Head of SRE: Cloud Reliability & Platform Engineering

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

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