SRE Lead Architect

PURVIEW; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Technical Subject Matter Expert to enhance capacity and observability controls across their technology estate. This exciting role requires a blend of hands-on engineering expertise and architectural oversight, focusing on performance, resilience, and control effectiveness. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in complex technology environments, a strong grasp of SRE principles, and the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders. Join this forward-thinking company to drive scalable solutions and align technical capabilities with internal control frameworks and regulatory expectations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering or technical architecture roles in complex tech environments.
• Hands-on experience with performance monitoring and alerting systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evaluation of capacity management and observability controls.
• Collaborate with teams to validate technical designs and implementation plans.

Skills

Systems Thinking

SRE Principles

Capacity Planning

Observability Controls

Performance Monitoring

Communication Skills

Operational Controls

Incident Response

Tools

Geneos

Prometheus

Grafana

AppDynamics

Job description

PURVIEW Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Talent Acquisition Specialist at Purview Services

Location: Birmingham/ Sheffield (Hybrid - 3 days a week)

Lead Technical SME – Capacity Planning & Control Uplift

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Lead Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) with strong systems thinking and a solid grasp of SRE principles to drive the technical uplift of capacity and observability controls across our technology estate. This role blends hands-on engineering depth with architectural oversight and focuses on enhancing performance, resilience, and control effectiveness across services and platforms.

The ideal candidate brings both operational sensibility and the ability to drive scalable solutions — aligning technical capabilities with internal control frameworks and regulatory expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and technical evaluation of capacity management, utilisation monitoring, and observability controls across platforms.
• Apply SRE-aligned practices to identify control gaps, performance risks, and areas for automation.
• Assess existing tooling, data flows and operational practices to identify control gaps and propose remediation strategies.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, architecture, and risk teams to validate technical designs and implementation plans.
• Define reusable technical patterns and tooling strategies that enhance operational readiness and control sustainability.
• Support roadmap shaping, tooling assessment, and documentation for governance and operational readiness.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years in engineering, infrastructure, or technical architecture roles in complex technology environments.
• Solid understanding of compute, storage, and network capacity planning across mixed deployment models.
• Familiarity with SRE disciplines such as observability, service-level indicators/objectives (SLIs/SLOs), and automation of operational tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply control requirements in technical design contexts.
• Hands-on experience with performance monitoring, alerting systems, and diagnostic tooling (e.g., Geneos, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, or similar tools).
• Strong communication skills — able to convey technical concepts to senior stakeholders and control partners.
• Experience in implementing or uplifting operational controls (capacity, performance, availability).
• Exposure to internal risk frameworks or external regulatory requirements (e.g., DORA, EBA, PRA).
• Background in service reliability, system diagnostics, or incident response.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting