Senior SRE Squad Lead — Hybrid & Cloud Observability

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service pension

Annual leave 25–30 days

Volunteer days (3 per year)

Professional training and development

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) seeks a Senior SRE Squad Lead to guide engineers, deliver reliable cloud services and embed best practices across DevOps and SRE. The role emphasizes hands‑on design, collaboration with cross‑functional teams and a culture focused on resilience and continuous improvement.

You will shape platform reliability, security and performance in a modern cloud environment, while supporting an inclusive, learning‑driven engineering community

Qualifications

• Experience leading, supporting and developing engineers, including line management or mentoring.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Experience designing and delivering infrastructure‑as‑code solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code in at least one language.
• Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems for reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of Site Reliability Engineers, setting direction and fostering a high‑performing culture.
• Collaborate with product, delivery and architecture to meet business and user needs.
• Provide technical leadership across DevOps and SRE practices.
• Coach and mentor engineers across DDaT.
• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure using IaC approaches.
• Develop observability through monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting.

Skills

People leadership

Communication skills

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform/CFN)

Programming language (at least one)

Distributed systems reliability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) seeks a Senior SRE Squad Lead to guide engineers, deliver reliable cloud services and embed best practices across DevOps and SRE. The role emphasizes hands‑on design, collaboration with cross‑functional teams and a culture focused on resilience and continuous improvement.

You will shape platform reliability, security and performance in a modern cloud environment, while supporting an inclusive, learning‑driven engineering community