Director of Operations

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

Job summary

Corecom Consulting is seeking a Director of Platform Operations to own reliability, security and operational engineering for a large-scale SaaS platform. You will lead 15–20 engineers across SRE, Security Engineering and Technical Operations, driving improvements in resilience and security posture.

The role demands senior leadership experience managing multiple engineering teams, with deep AWS knowledge and strong emphasis on DevSecOps, SRE culture, and executive-level risk communication.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE, Security Engineering and Technical Operations teams, developing engineering leaders and building a high-performance culture.
• Own platform availability, reliability and incident management against a 99.9% availability commitment.
• Establish and improve SLOs, error budgets, observability, capacity planning and operational resilience.
• Own vulnerability management and automated security practices.
• Drive a modern DevOps culture, enabling teams to take ownership of production applications.
• Improve developer experience, automation and tooling to reduce manual effort and increase productivity.
• Oversee AWS infrastructure investments and contribute to platform cost efficiency.

Skills

SRE leadership

Security engineering

AWS

Terraform

Incident management

DevSecOps

Executive communication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

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.