Senior Site Reliability Lead — Cloud & Platform Reliability

Government Recruitment Service; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 69,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Belfast to lead a team of SREs and provide technical direction across cloud-native services. You will shape platform strategy, drive reliable delivery and improve operational resilience for critical government services.

The role focuses on observability, incident management, on-call readiness and collaboration with product, architecture and delivery colleagues to scale the global platform while maintaining security and

Qualifications

• Lead Site Reliability Engineers and provide technical direction
• Strong background in DevOps and cloud-native engineering
• Experience shaping platform strategy and engineering practices

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.

Skills

SRE leadership

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Belfast to lead a team of SREs and provide technical direction across cloud-native services. You will shape platform strategy, drive reliable delivery and improve operational resilience for critical government services.

The role focuses on observability, incident management, on-call readiness and collaboration with product, architecture and delivery colleagues to scale the global platform while maintaining security and