Lead SRE (AWS/Linux) - £90k - Motorsports / Automotive Tech.

Hawksworth; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Hawksworth in Surrey is seeking an experienced Lead SRE (AWS) to join our engineering team. You will drive the Paas platform, steer CI/CD practices, and provide technical leadership across product delivery teams.

The role combines hands-on cloud engineering with governance and reliability focus, requiring Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and Go or Python expertise in a fast-paced motorsport environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of SRE/DevOps experience in cloud environments.
• Proficiency with Terraform for IaC.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience (3+ years).
• Software development in Go or Python.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Responsibilities

• Lead the CI Platform as a Service (Paas) initiative and improve cloud governance.
• Collaborate with product delivery teams to deploy software on the cloud.
• Provide hands-on SRE experience for production systems and incident response.
• Define tooling and telemetry (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to improve observability.

Skills

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Go or Python

CI/CD

Git

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Tools

Terraform tooling

Elastic Stack

Prometheus

Grafana

Git

Job description

Lead SRE (AWS) - £90k

Industry: Engineering - Automotive / Motorsports technology

2 days in the office - Surrey

Permanent position

Come and develop your career with a company any automotive / motorsports fan would dream to work for!!

We need an open-minded technologist, who values a collaborative work environment and who's willing to learn and explore as the fast-paced industry evolves and changes.

As our clients Lead SRE you will drive initiatives that create and improve the CI ‘Platform as a Service’ (Paas) offering to the product delivery teams, as well as implementing the CI cloud governance policy, and define/implement the tooling, continually improving our client's software development, release and maintenance processes.

Your day to day will be working with delivery teams deploying software on the cloud and providing strategic technical / SRE leadership to the rest of the team. You'll have hands on experience in delivering production quality services and experience supporting live production systems.

Must have experience:

• Terraform - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• 3+ years of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Linux environment.
• Software dev experience in either Go or Python
• DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and version control e.g. Git.
• Observability and monitoring tools e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc

Nice to haves:

• Designing, building and maintaining multitenant and multi-region cloud infrastructure.
• Ansible or SaltStack.
• Cyber security, IAM, Data security, AppSec, Cyptography.
• IoT systems integration/protocols
• Networking concepts and network performance modelling / optimisation.
• Hashicorp tools like Vault or Consul.

This is excellent timing to be joining a company who are winning deals left, right, and centre across Europe, and be part of a team that puts engineering first.

Thank you for reading our job ad and I look forward to hearing from you.

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