Senior SRE – Remote UK, Cloud Reliability Lead (SC Cleared)

Talent; Greater London; Remote; GBP 78,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

A Senior Site Reliability Engineer is sought for a Central Government cloud programme. SC cleared, remote UK, initially six months, inside IR35, paying £500 per day.

The role drives SRE best practice across the cloud estate, onboarding services through a gate process, ensuring production readiness and security.

You will lead, mentor other SREs, work with development teams from design to production, and coordinate incident response and change assessments.

Qualifications

• SC clearance required or in place.
• Senior level SRE with cloud experience and production reliability focus.
• Ability to work in a government environment and within security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement techniques to improve reliability and SRE strategy.
• Collaborate with development teams to enable monitoring and best practices.
• Foster ownership and maintain integrity of Live Service.
• Manage the error budget with the product owner and balance work.
• Lead investigations of major incidents and coordinate response.
• Assess change requests with stakeholders and authorize implementations.
• Coach and mentor engineers in SRE practices.

Skills

SC clearance

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud monitoring

Kubernetes

Incident management

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Prometheus

Job description

A Senior Site Reliability Engineer is sought for a Central Government cloud programme. SC cleared, remote UK, initially six months, inside IR35, paying £500 per day.

The role drives SRE best practice across the cloud estate, onboarding services through a gate process, ensuring production readiness and security.

You will lead, mentor other SREs, work with development teams from design to production, and coordinate incident response and change assessments.