SRE Manager: Scale, Reliability & Observability Leader

UST; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UST is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional engineering team that improves reliability, scalability, performance and security of internally developed applications.

This hands-on leadership role blends software and systems engineering with people development to promote SRE practices, observability, automation and continuous improvement across the business.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team delivering business outcomes.
• Strong software, systems, and cloud architecture background.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and manage priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team applying SRE principles to internally developed applications.
• Improve observability and service automation to reduce operational overhead.
• Identify development opportunities for engineers and support them in achieving their goals.
• Troubleshoot architectural and technology challenges, guiding the team towards effective solutions.
• Define, implement and track Service Level Objectives to measure service availability.
• Collaborate with service, product and engineering communities to improve service performance.
• Partner with product and engineering managers to manage workload priorities.
• Oversee platforms that are performant, reliable, scalable and secure.
• Estimate, refine and prioritise the team’s workload within an agile environment.
• Drive continuous improvement across platform health, compliance and resilience.
• Create opportunities for innovation within the engineering team.
• Work with senior stakeholders to develop and strengthen Site Reliability Engineering practices across the business.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud architecture

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Observability

Agile

Stakeholder management

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Java

.NET/C#

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Job description

UST is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional engineering team that improves reliability, scalability, performance and security of internally developed applications.

This hands-on leadership role blends software and systems engineering with people development to promote SRE practices, observability, automation and continuous improvement across the business.