Senior Platform Reliability & Security Lead (Remote UK)

Corecom Consulting; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Corecom Consulting is seeking a Director of Platform Operations to own reliability, security and operational engineering for a large-scale SaaS platform. You will lead 15–20 engineers across SRE, Security Engineering and Technical Operations, driving improvements in resilience and security posture.

The role demands senior leadership experience managing multiple engineering teams, with deep AWS knowledge and strong emphasis on DevSecOps, SRE culture, and executive-level risk communication.

Qualifications

• Proven senior leadership across Site Reliability Engineering and Security Engineering functions.
• Experience managing multiple engineering teams and engineering managers.
• Background operating high-traffic, customer-facing SaaS environments at scale.
• Deep AWS knowledge, with Terraform and modern cloud infra experience.
• Strong understanding of incident management, SLOs, error budgets, vulnerability remediation and DevSecOps.
• Experience implementing automation to improve reliability and drive transformation.
• Ability to communicate technical risk and operational performance at executive level.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE, Security Engineering and Technical Operations teams, developing engineering leaders and building a high-performance culture.
• Own platform availability, reliability and incident management against a 99.9% availability commitment.
• Establish and improve SLOs, error budgets, observability, capacity planning and operational resilience.
• Own vulnerability management and automated security practices.
• Drive a modern DevOps culture, enabling teams to take ownership of production applications.
• Improve developer experience, automation and tooling to reduce manual effort and increase productivity.
• Oversee AWS infrastructure investments and contribute to platform cost efficiency.

Skills

SRE leadership

Security engineering

AWS

Terraform

Incident management

DevSecOps

Executive communication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Corecom Consulting is seeking a Director of Platform Operations to own reliability, security and operational engineering for a large-scale SaaS platform. You will lead 15–20 engineers across SRE, Security Engineering and Technical Operations, driving improvements in resilience and security posture.

The role demands senior leadership experience managing multiple engineering teams, with deep AWS knowledge and strong emphasis on DevSecOps, SRE culture, and executive-level risk communication.