SC Cleared SRE Technical Lead: Kubernetes & OpenShift

Amber Resourcing Ltd; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Reading area location

Bonus potential

Active SC clearance

Job summary

RSG Plc is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineering Technical Lead (SC Cleared) in Reading with hybrid working, offering up to £105,000 plus bonus. You will act as the technical authority for SRE across multiple teams and suppliers, owning reliability standards for critical platforms.

This role combines deep Kubernetes/OpenShift expertise with hands-on SRE leadership, ownership of SLAs/SLOs, IaC and GitOps, and mentoring of senior engineers to raise engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Proven SRE/reliability engineering experience in large scale production environments.
• Experience defining or working with SLAs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Strong observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or OpenTelemetry.
• Infrastructure as Code and GitOps experience, ideally Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD and Tekton.
• Experience across multi-cloud or hybrid environments and strong CI/CD automation.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive SRE strategy, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability standards.
• Provide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
• Drive automation across monitoring, incident response, recovery and remediation.
• Shape observability, capacity management and operational readiness practices.
• Act as a senior technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releases.
• Lead reliability reviews, toil reduction and blameless post-incident improvements.
• Govern reliability-focused IaC, GitOps and CI/CD practices.
• Mentor Senior SREs and engineers, raising engineering standards across multiple teams and suppliers.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

SRE leadership

CI/CD automation

IaC / GitOps

Multi-cloud / hybrid

Incident management

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Helm

Kustomize

ArgoCD

Tekton

Job description

RSG Plc is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineering Technical Lead (SC Cleared) in Reading with hybrid working, offering up to £105,000 plus bonus. You will act as the technical authority for SRE across multiple teams and suppliers, owning reliability standards for critical platforms.

This role combines deep Kubernetes/OpenShift expertise with hands-on SRE leadership, ownership of SLAs/SLOs, IaC and GitOps, and mentoring of senior engineers to raise engineering standards.