Lead SRE Engineer: Cloud, Observability & DevOps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Best Public Sector Employer 2025

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Manchester is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive technical leadership and team development within the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) - DDaT. The role focuses on reliable, scalable and secure services underpinning critical digital products.

You will lead cloud-focused initiatives, improve observability, CI/CD, incident response and platform resilience, while mentoring engineers and shaping engineering practices across

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.
• Work with product, delivery and architecture colleagues to ensure platform services meet user and business needs.
• Coach and mentor engineers and contribute to the wider DDaT engineering community.
• Ensure security, resilience and compliance are embedded into engineering practices.

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Manchester is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive technical leadership and team development within the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) - DDaT. The role focuses on reliable, scalable and secure services underpinning critical digital products.

You will lead cloud-focused initiatives, improve observability, CI/CD, incident response and platform resilience, while mentoring engineers and shaping engineering practices across