Senior SRE Squad Lead: Cloud Reliability & DevOps Coach

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service pension

25–30 days annual leave

Volunteer days

Learning & development

Professional qualifications & training

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) seeks a Senior SRE Squad Lead to guide engineers, lead on cloud‑based infrastructure and drive reliability in a hybrid, flexible working environment across the UK.

You will shape platform services, oversee observability, SLIs/SLOs, and CI/CD, while collaborating with product and architecture teams to deliver secure, scalable digital services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading, supporting and developing engineers (line management or mentoring).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and modern DevOps/SRE practices.
• Ability to design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar).
• Ability to write clean, well-tested code in at least one language and improve distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting clear direction and fostering a high-performing culture.
• Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture to ensure platform services meet business needs.
• Provide technical leadership across DevOps/SRE practices and drive reliability improvements.
• Coach and mentor across the Directorate to build a supportive engineering community.
• Design, build and maintain cloud-based infrastructure using IaC; enable observability with metrics, logging and alerting.
• Define and embed SLIs/SLOs and error budgets in a practical, user-focused way.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for safe, frequent delivery and manage incidents with blameless post-incident reviews.
• Ensure security, resilience and compliance are embedded in engineering practices.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

DevOps

SRE practices

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) seeks a Senior SRE Squad Lead to guide engineers, lead on cloud‑based infrastructure and drive reliability in a hybrid, flexible working environment across the UK.

You will shape platform services, oversee observability, SLIs/SLOs, and CI/CD, while collaborating with product and architecture teams to deliver secure, scalable digital services.