Tech Lead, SRE — Risk Screening Platform

London Stock Exchange; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nottingham-based technology organisation is seeking a Tech Lead - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to drive reliability for risk screening platforms across the EMEA region.

You will head 24x7 reliability operations, define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident responses, and mentor a growing team of SRE engineers. This role emphasizes automation, secure delivery, and collaboration with product and engineering stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in production operations, SRE, or DevOps roles.
• 3+ years in a people management capacity.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with identity platforms and fraud detection systems.
• Strong knowledge of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets).
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead 24x7 reliability operations for Screening services; ensure uptime, performance and compliance.
• Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; maintain reliability scorecards.
• Act as Major Incident Commander; conduct blameless post-incident reviews.
• Drive automation-first mindset across incident response, deployment, and observability.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to embed non-functional requirements and security.
• Co-own cloud reliability roadmap with platform teams; standardize tooling for observability and incident comms.
• Ensure DR readiness and resilience patterns across services.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud operations

Incident management

Observability

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Security by design

Stakeholder management

BCP/DR planning

Remote collaboration

People management

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

The Nottingham-based technology organisation is seeking a Tech Lead - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to drive reliability for risk screening platforms across the EMEA region.

You will head 24x7 reliability operations, define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident responses, and mentor a growing team of SRE engineers. This role emphasizes automation, secure delivery, and collaboration with product and engineering stakeholders.