Site Reliability Engineer Lead

JR United Kingdom; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Site Reliability Engineer Lead in London, where you will drive the observability strategy for key transformation projects. You will lead and collaborate with teams to implement best practices in observability, ensuring efficient monitoring across various platforms. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in SRE and a strong background in cloud engineering and DevOps tools, contributing to an innovative and agile environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a hands-on SRE Engineer.
• Deep understanding of observability practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SRE function and promote observability in teams.
• Define and implement observability roadmap across products.
• Hands-on work with monitoring platforms.

Skills

Observability

Monitoring practices

Cloud engineering

DevOps tools knowledge

Configuration management

Education

AWS certification

Tools

Datadog

GitHub

Terraform

Docker

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Location:

london (city of london), United Kingdom

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Posted:

16.06.2025

Expiry Date:

31.07.2025

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Job Description:

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Lead – Observability

Location: London (Hybrid, 2 days on site per week)

Contract Role

Overview:

Join a high-impact team where you'll lead and shape the SRE and Observability function for a major transformation programme. This role goes beyond traditional SRE – you’ll champion best practices across product teams, drive observability strategy, and work hands-on with cutting-edge tools like Datadog and AWS.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the SRE function and promote observability-first thinking across development and operations teams.
• Define and implement the observability roadmap across product domains in collaboration with the client.
• Be hands-on with Datadog for infrastructure and application-level monitoring.
• Guide and review daily operations and improvements across observability platforms.
• Partner with engineering squads to deliver on observability requirements in an agile, demand-led way.

Core Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience as a hands-on SRE Engineer.
• Deep understanding of observability and monitoring practices.
• Practical experience with Datadog (or similar observability platforms).
• Strong DevOps toolchain knowledge: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodeQL, Nexus, CloudFormation, Terraform.
• Solid cloud engineering skills, especially with AWS (EC2, ELB, ECS, S3, CloudTrail, Config, Lambda, VPC, EFS).
• Exposure to container-based platforms (e.g., Docker).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Chef.
• AWS certification (or willingness to pursue one).