Director of Operations

Corecom Consulting; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within the UK

Job summary

Corecom Consulting is seeking a Director of Platform Operations to own reliability, security and operational engineering for a large-scale SaaS platform. Fully remote within the UK, you will lead 15–20 engineers across SRE, Security Engineering and Technical Operations to improve resilience and cost efficiency.

The role demands senior leadership in SRE/Security, extensive AWS and Terraform experience, and a track record of delivering automated security practices and DevSecOps.

Qualifications

• Senior leader with proven SRE and Security Engineering experience.
• Experience managing multiple engineering teams and managers.
• Background in high-traffic customer-facing SaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE, Security Engineering and Technical Operations teams; develop leaders and a high-performance culture.
• Own platform availability, reliability and incident management against a 99.9% availability target.
• Establish and improve SLOs, error budgets, observability and capacity planning.

Skills

SRE Leadership

Security Engineering

AWS

Terraform

Incident management

DevSecOps

Automation

Observability

Engineering leadership

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Director of Platform Operations | £150,000–£160,000 | Fully Remote (UK)

I'm partnering with an established, growing SaaS organisation seeking an experienced Director of Platform Operations to take ownership of reliability, security and operational engineering across a large-scale technology platform.

This is an opportunity for a senior engineering leader who's built and led high-performing SRE and Security Engineering functions, with a strong understanding of what it takes to operate business-critical SaaS products at scale.

The Opportunity

You’ll oversee approximately 15–20 engineers across Site Reliability Engineering, Security Engineering and Technical Operations, driving improvements in platform resilience, security posture and operational efficiency.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading SRE, Security Engineering and Technical Operations teams, developing engineering leaders and building a high-performance culture.
• Taking accountability for platform availability, reliability and incident management against a 99.9% availability commitment.
• Establishing and improving SLOs, error budgets, observability, capacity planning and operational resilience.
• Owning vulnerability management, security remediation frameworks and automated security practices.
• Driving a modern DevOps culture, enabling engineering teams to take greater ownership of their applications in production.
• Improving developer experience, automation and operational tooling to reduce manual effort and increase engineering productivity.
• Overseeing significant AWS infrastructure investment and contributing to platform cost efficiency.

What We're Looking For

• Proven senior leadership experience across genuine Site Reliability Engineering and Security Engineering functions.
• Experience managing multiple engineering teams and engineering managers.
• Strong background operating high-traffic, customer-facing SaaS environments at significant scale.
• Deep AWS knowledge, with experience of Terraform and modern cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of incident management, SLOs, error budgets, vulnerability remediation and DevSecOps.
• Experience implementing automation, improving reliability and driving operational transformation.
• Ability to communicate technical risk and operational performance at executive level.

The Package

Fully remote within the UK

Significant ownership of platform reliability and security strategy

We're looking for someone who sees SRE as an engineering discipline, not simply traditional IT operations under a different name.