Lead SRE: Cloud Reliability & Platform Architect

Government Recruitment Service; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 69,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Cardiff is hiring a Lead Site Reliability Engineer within the DDaT division. You will lead a team of SREs, provide technical direction, and drive reliability, scalability and security across critical BIST digital services.

The role covers cloud infrastructure as code, observability, CI/CD, incident management, and collaboration with product, delivery and architecture teams. On‑call duty and mentoring are included in a hands‑on leadership capacity.

Qualifications

• Lead and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers, providing technical direction, coaching and support.
• Provide technical leadership across SRE and DevOps, helping teams build reliable, scalable and sustainable services.
• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Lead the adoption of effective observability, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting.
• Help teams define and use SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to make informed decisions about reliability and delivery.
• Improve CI/CD and engineering automation to enable safe, frequent and low‑risk change.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers, providing technical direction, coaching and support.
• Provide technical leadership across SRE and DevOps, helping teams build reliable, scalable and sustainable services.
• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Lead the adoption of effective observability, including monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting.
• Help teams define and use SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to make informed decisions about reliability and delivery.
• Improve CI/CD and engineering automation to enable safe, frequent and low‑risk change.
• Oversee live‑service reliability and support effective incident and problem management, promoting a learning‑focused and blameless culture.

Skills

SRE leadership

DevOps

Cloud infra

Observability

CI/CD

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Cardiff is hiring a Lead Site Reliability Engineer within the DDaT division. You will lead a team of SREs, provide technical direction, and drive reliability, scalability and security across critical BIST digital services.

The role covers cloud infrastructure as code, observability, CI/CD, incident management, and collaboration with product, delivery and architecture teams. On‑call duty and mentoring are included in a hands‑on leadership capacity.