Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE Squad Lead)

Inspire People; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspire People seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE Squad Lead) based in Darlington, County Durham, North East, UK. This full-time role offers a salary around £80,000 and requires proven SRE/DevOps leadership.

The position focuses on guiding an SRE squad to improve reliability, scalability, and performance of digital services, while coordinating with DevOps, cloud, and product teams to deliver resilient cloud-based solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps leadership.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and container orchestration.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to an SRE squad, guiding engineering practices to improve reliability, availability, latency, and scalability of digital services.
• Lead incident management, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement of reliability engineering processes.
• Collaborate with DevOps, cloud platforms, security, and product teams to design and implement secure, scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and automation to reduce toil and improve system resilience.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and translate business needs into technical roadmaps.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud platforms

Containerization & orchestration

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

Overview

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE Squad Lead) based in Darlington, County Durham, North East, UK. This is a Full time opportunity (£80,000).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to an SRE squad, guiding engineering practices to improve reliability, availability, latency, and scalability of digital services.
• Lead incident management, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement of reliability engineering processes.
• Collaborate with DevOps, cloud platforms, security, and product teams to design and implement secure, scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and automation to reduce toil and improve system resilience.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and translate business needs into technical roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps leadership, or equivalent.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers, manage priorities, and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Eligibility to work in the United Kingdom and location-based requirements.