SRE Technical Lead - Hybrid UK, Up to £105k + Bonus

F5 Consultants; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Consultants is recruiting an SRE Technical Lead for a major UK Critical National Infrastructure programme. Based in the Reading area with hybrid working, the role offers a salary up to £105,000 plus bonus and a focus on reliability.

You will provide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and OpenShift environments, drive automation and observability, and mentor senior engineers to raise engineering standards. This is a senior, high-impact position.

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Proven SRE or reliability engineering in large-scale environments.
• Experience defining SLAs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Strong observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or OpenTelemetry.
• Infrastructure as Code and GitOps with Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD or Tekton.
• Experience across multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
• Strong CI/CD and automation experience.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor teams.
• Experience with Istio, Red Hat ACM/ACS, Submariner or enterprise Postgres is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive SRE strategy including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability standards.
• Provide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
• Drive automation across monitoring, incident response, recovery and remediation.
• Shape observability, capacity management and operational readiness practices.
• Act as a senior technical escalation point for major incidents and high-risk releases.
• Lead reliability reviews, toil reduction and blameless post-incident improvements.
• Govern reliability-focused Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and CI/CD practices.
• Mentor Senior SREs and engineers, raising engineering standards across multiple teams and suppliers.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

SRE leadership

SLAs & SLOs

Observability

IaC & GitOps

CI/CD automation

Multi-cloud

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Tools

ArgoCD

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Helm

Kustomize

Tekton

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

F5 Consultants is recruiting an SRE Technical Lead for a major UK Critical National Infrastructure programme. Based in the Reading area with hybrid working, the role offers a salary up to £105,000 plus bonus and a focus on reliability.

You will provide technical leadership across complex Kubernetes and OpenShift environments, drive automation and observability, and mentor senior engineers to raise engineering standards. This is a senior, high-impact position.